Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has unveiled plans to create a statewide drug prevention program.

The Houston-based production company, Texas-Pictures is telling the stories of people who lost loved ones to fentanyl.

A new report by Virginia’s Department of Forensic Science shows that fentanyl is spreading through our communities.

The campaign focuses on educating parents to then educate their children on the dangers of fentanyl.

As a fentanyl crisis hits the nation, families affected are trying to raise awareness of the deadly drug.

The First Lady of Virginia made a stop in the Star City on Thursday as part of her “It Only Takes One” fentanyl awareness campaign.

A new billboard is putting faces on the fentanyl crisis.

Tranq is the street name for Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that is now being found laced with other drugs.

Virginia First Lady Suzanne Youngkin heard stories from Roanoke City School parents and leaders impacted by the dangers of fentanyl in a forum Monday.

Virginia First Lady Suzanne Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares launched a new campaign to combat substance abuse.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office.

Lawmakers from Southwest Virginia convened in Richmond Wednesday for the opening of a new General Assembly session.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said he’s working to keep fentanyl out of the hands of people, especially kids.

Local healthcare professionals are sharing some ways you can keep yourself and your kids safe from fentanyl and other opioids.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced economic sanctions against 15 people and two companies that the United States says are linked to a Mexican drug cartel.

Election officials around the country are stocking up on the overdose reversal medication naloxone after a series of suspicious mailings — some containing traces of fentanyl — were sent to vote centers or government buildings in six states.

Threatening letters sent to local election offices in at least five states, some including fentanyl, are the latest concern for local election workers around the country.

The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 13 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel and four Mexico-based firms accused of trafficking fentanyl into the United States.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid.

The Biden administration is taking aim at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug.

About 150 people from families who have lost a loved one to fentanyl poisoning have gathered at the headquarters of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the U.S. faces its deadliest overdose crisis.

A man is facing charges after the Henry County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team and Narcotic Investigators executed a search warrant and seized drugs, money, and a gun, authorities said.

Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.

In 2022, US Customs and Border Protection confiscated over 650,000 pounds of drugs at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Gov. Youngkin's office says fentanyl is the leading cause of unnatural deaths in the state.

A growing number of states are decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips, seeking to protect people who use drugs from unwitting exposure to the highly potent synthetic opioid ravaging the U.S. with overdose deaths.

Danville Police held a news conference on Thursday to address the five-day operation that led to 25 people being arrested on 31 charges.

Tuesday is recognized as National Fentanyl Awareness Day, aimed at educating people about the dangers of the drug.

The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador talked with President Joe Biden about immigration and the fentanyl crisis.

California lawmakers have authored more than 30 bills in the Legislature this year to address fentanyl.

Over the course of a year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used the hammer of its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial restrictions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world.

The bill aims to permanently make fentanyl a schedule I drug.

A man was arrested after authorities seized drugs, guns, and money from his home in Roanoke on Oct. 3, according to Virginia State Police.

The Danville Police Department is sounding the alarm about the deadly risks of using illegal substances.

In the last three years, Danville Police say opioids killed at least 16 people in the city.

A small, rural county just west of Florida’s capital is stunned by an unheard-of spike in deadly drug overdoses believed to be caused by fentanyl mixed with other illegal drugs.

If you look at an aspirin or a Percocet, neither of the extremes look deadly.

Los Angeles police say three men were found dead of suspected drug overdoses involving fentanyl.

Community activists in South Florida sprang into action after West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a house party.

Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Nine members of a cross-border fentanyl smuggling ring were sentenced at a public hearing in a Chinese courtroom Thursday, a rare display by Beijing of its efforts to crack down on the highly-addictive drug. After three months of investigation, Chinese narcotics authorities busted the drug ring in a series of raids across the country, including in Hebei and Jiangsu provinces. Yu said that after the fentanyl was manufactured in China, it was sent overseas in postal packages. In a statement released in August, the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy claimed that China "continues to pour poison into our communities." He added that since 2012 the US had only shared six leads with Chinese authorities, three of which Yu claimed had led to joint investigations.

ROANOKE, Va. - A top state official is targeting a major fentanyl manufacturer for "deceiving the public" about the risks of its products. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed a lawsuit Thursday in Richmond City Circuit Court against opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals and its predecessor, Cephalon, for engaging in what he calls an "unlawful, complex, decades-long campaign to boost sales of fentanyl." Fentanyl is the most potent narcotic currently approved for human use, officials say. Herring alleges that the manufacturers coordinated a decadeslong campaign to turn fentanyl into a routine part of pain management in America. Actiq is described as a "raspberry-flavored fentanyl lollipop," and Fentora is a rapid release tablet.

Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images(CNN) - Fentanyl remains the deadliest drug in the United States, but in some areas of the country, methamphetamine kills more people. In 2017, fentanyl was associated with 38.9% of all drug overdose deaths, an increase from 2016, when it was associated with 29% of all fatal overdoses. This is the second year that CDC analyzed fatal overdoses in this way. While fentanyl was the most common drug involved in fatal overdoses nationally, there was a geographic divide, the report said. In 2017, the latest year for which complete data is available, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses.

DANVILLE, Va. - One person has died due to a heroin overdose connected with a batch of the drug police issued a warning about on Wednesday. The Danville Police Department issued a warning about heroin that has caused a series of overdoses that was laced with illegally sourced fentanyl or a similar substance. The person overdosed on Thursday morning and later died. Danville Police Department Damion Reed, 28, was arrested by Danville police for allegedly trafficking a potentially deadly batch of heroin. Police have arrested 28-year-old Damion Reed, who they suspect of trafficking the batch of drugs contributing to the overdoses.

LEFT: Damion Reed, 28, was arrested by Danville police for allegedly trafficking a potentially deadly batch of heroin. RIGHT: A bag of heroin part of the batch in question. DANVILLE, Va. - Police are warning people about what they're calling a potentially deadly batch of heroin laced with illegally sourced fentanyl or a similar substance. So far, police have arrested one man suspected of trafficking the batch of drugs contributing to the overdoses. Police say the investigation is ongoing and the risk for anyone coming into contact with this batch of illegal drugs still exists.

Copyright 2019 CNNSAN FRANCISCO - Five inmates and eight deputies from a San Francisco County jail were taken to the hospital after exposure to a narcotic -- possibly fentanyl, authorities said. The San Francisco Fire Department responded Tuesday evening to a call from sheriff's deputies who found an unresponsive inmate at County Jail #4 at the Hall of Justice. The inmate, along with four others who showed symptoms, were given Narcan and transported to a local hospital, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Eight deputies who administered CPR on scene were also exposed to the narcotic and taken to local hospitals. The fire department has cleared the affected area but it still needs to be decontaminated, authorities said.

Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Six staff members at a prison in Connecticut were taken to local hospitals for possible exposure to fentanyl, the potent synthetic opioid, the Connecticut Department of Correction said. An ambulance was called to the Cheshire Correctional Institute, a state prison, at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to take a correctional officer in medical distress to the hospital, the department said in a statement. The Department of Correction and Connecticut State Police are investigating. The correctional institution has 428 current staffers and emphasizes rewards for deserving inmates, including in educational programming, its website states. That potency means that police, first responders and prison staffers can overdose or suffer health effects after even a minor encounter with the drug.