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U.S. legislators are pushing the House and Senate leaders to move forward with legislation to strengthen America’s response to fentanyl coming through the nation’s borders and ports of entry.
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Members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate are joining together to call on leadership to move forward with new measures to combat illicit fentanyl trafficking in the United States.
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A Greene County man pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday in a case in which a person to whom he had sold fentanyl died of an overdose.
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Fentanyl remains the deadliest drug threat facing this nation. In 2021, a record number of Americans – 107,622 – died from a drug poisoning or overdose.
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A Smyth County man who ordered approximately 30,000 fentanyl pills from California and sold them in Southwest Virginia was sentenced Friday to 42 months in federal prison.
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Opioids help people manage chronic pain – and that’s a good thing. So, what went wrong?
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A former registered nurse who worked in the emergency department at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville pleaded guilty Monday to fraudulently obtaining fentanyl and hydromorphone.
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Legislation introduced Thursday would strengthen U.S. response to fentanyl entering the nation’s borders and ports of entry.
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A trio of Southwest Virginia residents who distributed pills containing fentanyl and were linked to teenage overdoses pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Abington.
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The death of a Harrisonburg male on Friday is being attributed to an overdose by Harrisonburg Police, and the preliminary investigation indicates that pure fentanyl was likely involved.
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