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I’ve been following Houston’s overdose numbers for the better part of three years now, and I’ll be honest — the trajectory still catches me off guard every time I pull the latest data.
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A Lynchburg drug dealer, with balls of steel, used friends and family members to traffic tens of thousands of pressed fentanyl pills while he was incarcerated at the Lynchburg Adult Detention Center awaiting trial on gang and firearm charges.
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Two Harrisonburg residents received hefty prison sentences for their part in a Virginia high school student’s death by fentanyl poisoning.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin is to be commended for the effort to reduce fentanyl overdoses from just under 2,000 in 2022 to in the area of 800 in 2025.
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Nitazenes, developed in the 1950s as a painkiller, is being referred to as the “next fentanyl,” though the synthetic opioids are 40 times stronger than fentanyl.
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An Iraqi national residing in Henrico County was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years and eight months in prison for fentanyl distribution.
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A Chesapeake man will spend two decades in prison after selling fentanyl pills to high-school students that led to one teen’s death.
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A Richmond man with seven prior felony convictions will serve seven years in prison after being caught with a firearm, cash and drugs.
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A press release from the office of Gov. Glenn Youngkin makes the eye-popping claim that the MAGA governor’s efforts to get fentanyl off the streets prevented 85 million deaths over the past three-plus years.
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A North Carolina man who crashed on Interstate 95 in Virginia with more than 4,500 baggies of fentanyl in his Jeep will spend 25 years in prison.
We don’t take press releases or official statements as the final word. Digging in to get the whole story takes time and resources.