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(The Center Square) – Federal prosecutors have charged 25 members and associates of two group feds say are Minneapolis-based drug trafficking organizations.
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(The Center Square) – A record more than 100 million lethal doses of fentanyl have been seized at the southwest border in the past seven months.Â
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Overdose deaths in Oregon have dropped for a second year in a row, according to the state’s health agency. There were 1,100 overdose deaths in 2025, preliminary estimates from the Oregon Health Authority show — a drop from more than 1,500 in 2024 and 1,800 in 2023. The decline marks the first year-over-year decline since […]
Free news: Oregon’s overdose deaths have decreased over the past two years, according to provisional federal data and a new report released by Oregon Health Authority (OHA).
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warned Americans Tuesday that fentanyl is increasingly mixed with a dangerous array of synthetic substances that can limit the effectiveness of naloxone, the standard overdose reversal drug, making the illicit drug supply more unpredictable and more lethal than ever.
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(The Center Square) – Massive drug busts are continuing along the southwest border primarily in California and Texas. In roughly a dozen stops this month federal agents seized enough cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine to kill more than 32.7 million people.Â
WASCO CO. — A task force commissioned by The Dalles and Wasco County officials have determined awards for drug treatment organizations applyin…
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THE DALLES — According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health’s latest estimates of substance abuse prevalence, one in five Oregonians …
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THE GORGE — What’s it like to administer naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, to someone experiencing an overdose?
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Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue (MCFR) saw a steady 20 to 21 overdoses a year for the past three years, but has already recorded 20 overdoses just through September of this year.
