All news on the topic: Fentanyl

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Police hunt drug-dealing nursery owner after baby killed by fentanyl
Baby Nicholas Dominici died at the Bronx day care and nursery owner Grei Mendez has been charged - but the NYPD are trying to find her husband who was seen to flee the nursery
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Nursery owner was destroying evidence of Fentanyl ring while children overdosed
Authorities in New York say a daycare owner but was not only part of a drug ring, she was storing Fentanyl on a play mat, resulting in the death of a one-year-old and the hospitalizations of three other children ranging in age from 8 months to two years
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Chilling letter found as mum who 'killed hubby with fentanyl has jail seizure'
A Utah mum-of-three who is accused of poisoning her husband with fentanyl suffered a seizure in her jail cell, which led to the discovery of a damning letter that could change the course of her trial
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Dad of baby killed at daycare that was front for drugs says 'he'd so much love'
The dad of a baby killed at a day suspected to be a front for drugs has said he expected to take his child to a daycare 'not a funeral home.' Two people have been charged with murder
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Worker at daycare where baby died 'eating fentanyl' screamed four chilling words
Chilling screams were heard from a Bronx daycare where a baby died after 'eating fentanyl.' Police have since said they found a suspicious item used for packaging drugs
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New horror drug combination leading to spike in deaths across the country
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
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'Zombie drug' Tranq addicts sway in street in disturbing open-air drug market
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'
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Father devastated after mum mistakenly put fentanyl in baby's milk, killing him
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
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Baby dies after teen mum 'mixes formula milk with fentanyl' as she wanted a nap
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
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Dangers of fentanyl explained as Robert De Niro's grandson dies from drug
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
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Woman takes dead sister's ashes on holiday to Las Vegas for her 21st birthday
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
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Dead Brit 'beaten up by Magaluf bouncers' had been 'injected with strong drug'
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
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Mum accused of poisoning husband showed 'red flags' in chilling TV chat
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
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'Zombie' skin-rotting Tranq drug horror on streets as users lose limbs and die
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
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Coolio cause of death confirmed as family plan to honour his legacy
Coolio's cause of death has been revealed after a family spokesman revealed fentanyl killed the rapper
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Mum says son, 13, brain damaged after being bullied into smoking drug-laced vape
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
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Teacher overdoses on deadly fentanyl in front of horrified students during class
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
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