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Yitzchok “Isak” Sklar reportedly left his dying son in a family shelter while fleeing to hide his drug stash. Sklar and his drug supplier kept selling fentanyl after the boy’s death, and now face federal charges.

A Monash University analysis of blood tests shows nearly a quarter of injured drivers had illicit drugs in their system. “It’s scary to all of us,” notes a public safety advocate on the rising trend of drugged driving.

With deaths falling in 90 percent of states, experts warn gains depend on continued prevention, education and vigilance nationwide.

After losing her daughter to fentanyl, a mother turned grief into global advocacy, inspiring a worldwide effort to save lives by keeping young people drug-free.

A storage locker in Highlands Ranch hid a Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl stash worth an estimated $8 million, officials told Freedom.

Potent synthetic opioids up to 500 times stronger than morphine are flooding the US despite rising enforcement. Experts warn only education can cut demand and stop the cycle of lethal new drugs.

Fentanyl-stimulant overdose deaths among seniors have soared 9,000 percent in eight years as fentanyl increasingly appears in cocaine and meth.

In a two-week sweep spanning 18 nations, Operation Lionfish-Mayag exposed the scale and sophistication of international drug cartels.

Fentanyl’s rapid clearance from the body allows workers to pass initial tests—leaving offices, warehouses and job sites exposed to employees impaired by the nation’s deadliest opioid.

The 75-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom—admitting to a murderous reign of trafficking, corruption and suffering that stretched across decades.