Fentanyl

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel is in U.S. custody along with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the other cartel co-founder Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed in a press release. The two men were arrested Thursday in El Paso,...

By Lucía Tedesco via El Planteo Spain appears to be spared from the fentanyl crisis due to the availability of heroin in the country. This is indicated by a study led by David Pere Martínez-Oró, director of the Episteme Social research center. "Fentanyl in Spain: Evidence...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a 10-count indictment against Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which is run by the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence in a supermax prison in Colorado. These associates...

A promising new startup, Ovax Inc., secured $10 million in funding to advance the development of a groundbreaking vaccine designed to prevent fentanyl-related deaths. The initiative focuses on commercializing academic research aimed at preventing the potent opioid from reaching the brain, reported...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced it had seized nearly six tons of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of green squash. Specially trained dogs sniffed out the drugs in the 1,419 packages of squash, the CBP said in a news release. The shipment was discovered in a...

U.S. Senator Tim Scott's (R-S.C.), effort to crack down on the illicit fentanyl supply chain was signed into law on Wednesday as a part of the national security supplemental package. Scott, a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, wrote and introduced the FEND Off...

New Jersey Activists Defy Law And Plant A Cannabis Garden On The State House Lawn, Cops Show Up New Jersey activists staged a protest on the State House lawn by planting a cannabis garden without a permit, later sparking a confrontation with the police, according to Heady NJ. Despite the state...

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) has pointed out a stark contrast between fentanyl-related deaths in China and the U.S., emphasizing China’s involvement in the American fentanyl crisis. What Happened: On Tuesday, Krishnamoorthi, a member of the Select Committee on the CCP Democrats,...

By Lucía Tedesco via El Planteo Recent research indicates a shift in consumption patterns: individuals now prefer smoking fentanyl to injecting it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that 70% of the 109,000 overdose deaths in 2022 involved fentanyl, with an...

Marco Troper, the 19-year-old UC Berkeley freshman and son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found unresponsive in his college dorm this past week. Family members, including his grandmother Esther Wojcicki, told local media that Troper's death was likely the result of a drug overdose. "...

A House GOP effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed last week as three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against what would have been the second-ever impeachment move against a Cabinet member. Some outlets called that vote a "stunning loss" for the GOP, while...

Florida will be sending up to 1,000 members of the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard to Texas to assist with the southern border, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday. DeSantis said the guard members will be deployed based on Texas' needs as the state deals with a wave of illegal...

In an ongoing effort against the escalating fentanyl crisis, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder — the most the DEA has ever seized in a single year. The haul translates into more than 386 million lethal...

President Joe Biden announced in a Wednesday press conference that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had reached an understanding to "reduce the flow of precursor chemicals and pill presses from China to the Western Hemisphere."   "It's going to save lives...

At Wednesday night’s third Republican presidential primary debate for 2024, the five candidates spent two hours trading jabs in Miami over the usual topics, including how they’d handle the country’s devastating opioid crisis. One of the moderators,...