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Breakout country star Jelly Roll appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to lobby lawmakers to pass legislation to stop the spread of fentanyl. “Forgive me, I’m a little nervous, I’m used to having a rock & roll band behind me when I have a microphone in front of me,” Jelly …

Election officials in Washington, Oregon, and Georgia have been sent letters containing white powder —some of which was later identified as crushed fentanyl. In Fulton County, Georgia, the letter was intercepted before being delivered to its target. According to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the secretary’s office is “working …

Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler. She has to be, given that she’s stuck in Florida in the year of our lord 2011, trying to figure out the next step for her and her daughter, Phoebe. On the plus side, Liza has grit, …

H ow many ways can a man kill himself before the devil finally says, “Well done?” For Rooster, the answer is unknowable: His seven serious bids didn’t take. There was the time he hanged himself from a tree by the river and swung there, counting heartbeats, till he died. (An …

A Utah mother of three who wrote a children’s book about losing a parent has been charged with her husband’s murder. Kouri Darden Richins was arrested Monday, a little more than a year after her husband, Eric Richins, died of a fentanyl overdose in the home he and Richins shared …

The Biden administration proposed tighter rules for telehealth prescriptions of certain medications in an attempt to combat the country’s opioid epidemic. The Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday announced plans to reinstate federal requirements for drugs classified as controlled substances that were eased during the Covid-19 pandemic. The move would shrink …

Just in time for Halloween, the right has found a new scare tactic warning parents that drug cartels are targeting children by disguising fentanyl as candy. The bogus claim was touted by Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker during a recent speech, which Jimmy Kimmel skewered during his show Tuesday, …

In the past two years, fentanyl, the extremely potent synthetic drug, has become a main driver of the U.S.’s ongoing opioid crisis. While the drug’s potent form and cheap production costs make it a staple for drug dealers, its lack of regulations and intensity makes first-time users extremely vulnerable to …

“If it bleeds, it leads” goes the old saying about the way TV newsrooms choose their stories. Grisly murders, gruesome accidents, and graphic violence often lead news broadcasts because producers know just as well as politicians that scaring people is a great way to make sure they keep paying attention …

A group of Republican senators has released a video warning parents that Mexican drug cartels have begun targeting children by disguising fentanyl as candy, despite actual experts claiming its bogus. The public service announcement, a portion of which was aired on Fox News Friday morning, said that “by working together …