All news on the topic: Fentanyl

A spike in overdose deaths has resulted from the combination of fentanyl and stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamines, a new study reveals — and it's causing the fourth wave in the opioid crisis

People in the Kensington neighbourhood of Philadelphia were recorded on a chilling video swaying in the street amid a crisis involving the 'zombie drug' also known as 'tranq'

A 9-month-old baby named Elijah died in Nassau County, Florida after his teenage mother mistakenly put fentanyl in his bottle. His father, Phillip Word has said he is devastated

The 17-year-old mum made her baby boy a bottle of formula before going into the bathroom and finding a pill bottle containing what she thought was cocaine but turned out to be deadly fentanyl

Robert De Niro's grandson Leandro died at the weekend after taking pills laced with fentanyl according to the 19-year-old's heartbroken mother, Drena De Niro

After losing her 18-year-old sister Erin to fentanyl poisoning Brianna Payne, from Arizona, started travelling the world and shared her experience to raise awareness on the issue

Tobias White-Sansom slipped into a coma and died in hospital days after allegedly being knelt on by police and beaten up by bouncers on the Magaluf strip in Majorca

Kouri Richins is accused of poisoning her husband, Eric, by slipping a lethal dose of fentanyl into a Moscow mule she made him, the month before her arrest she appeared on local TV to promote her book helping children overcome grief

Laced pills flooding the illicit drug market increasingly claim lives, with the horse tranquillizer Xylazine causing a shocking spike. Users could get gangrene and even amputation of limbs

Coolio's cause of death has been revealed after a family spokesman revealed fentanyl killed the rapper

A 13-year-old student, from Georgia in the US, suffered a stroke after using a vape pen laced with deadly substance fentanyl, with his mum saying he was forced to smoke it by a group of bullies

Teacher Frank Thompson, 57, is thought to have been under the influence of fentanyl, which he had stashed in the cupboard of his classroom at the school he worked at in New Jersey, when he was found unresponsive