State moves to ban concentrated kratom chemical, aiming to keep Kentuckians safe from addictive drugs.
"The quantity of pills seized in this operation has the potential to kill the population of Louisville several times over."
An eight-year-old boy in Madisonville died from fentanyl intoxication last month, after officials initially believed it to be from an allergic reaction to strawberries from a school fundraiser.
When Morgan Lewis was 23 years old, she experimented with cocaine at a friends house.
Louisville groups ready to distribute fentanyl test strips after Kentucky legislature legalizes them
A majority of overdose deaths in Kentucky involve fentanyl, and data shows most people don't even know they're taking it.
Daniel Cameron joins coalition calling for fentanyl to be classified as 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'
Kentucky Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial hopeful Daniel Cameron said in a news release Thursday that President Joe Biden should classify fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction."
They wanted to tell their story to prevent others from dying from fentanyl poisoning.
Federal, state and local authorities are going back to school to learn how to better combat the opioid epidemic.
According to the DEA, one kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people.
The number of deaths began to double every year after 2013.