Fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, has become a key point of contention in US-China trade talks. The US accuses China of enabling fentanyl's flow into the US, leading to overdose deaths and tariffs.

Authorities say she planned to send the poisoned chocolates disguised as a congratulatory gift from a travel agency.

Now, experts say, fentanyl, a cheap, synthetic opiate originally dreamed up to treat people with end-of-life cancer, is either trekked in across the U.S.’s southern border by American mules, where

A Denver man was sentenced to 48 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to traffic illegal drugs to Weld County, according to the 19th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

A Texas woman was indicted in Parker County this week several months after police say she plotted to kill her ex-husband by mailing him chocolates laced

Pamela Jean Stanley was recorded telling an acquaintance she wanted to buy powdered fentanyl to “inject” into a box of chocolates, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Friday. She planned to mail the drug-laced candy to her ex-husband, who’d recently gotten engaged to another woman, authorities said.

The woman tried to buy the fentanyl from an undercover investigator at a motel and was then arrested, officials say.

Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution sites around Sonoma County.

A man is facing several charges after search warrant executions, according to deputies with the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office.On July 3, officials said search warrants were executed at several homes on Angell Road in Madison.