GREENACRES, Fla. (CBS12) — A Greenacres man was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison on Friday for selling thousands of synthetic opioids 'stronger than fentanyl.' Blake Alfonso Kolessa ...

Doctors are warning of several novel and potent synthetic opioids that could require more than one dose of the overdose reversal drug naloxone to counteract. A report published at the end of ...

Examples of physical withdrawal symptoms ... Illegally manufactured fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are also used recreationally and are responsible for overdoses. Naloxone (with the brand ...

The ECDOH is alerting the community that carfentanil, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, has been ...

The difference is that opiates are derived from plants, and opioids are synthetic. For example, morphine is a natural opiate, ...

The increase in the manufacture and use of highly-addictive synthetic opioids is a global challenge. The EU is taking action to curb this global affliction on society. Opioids are a class of drugs ...

(NewsNation) — Mexican drug cartels are driving an opioid epidemic, flooding the United States with increasingly potent synthetic drugs that are claiming thousands of lives annually, according ...