fentanyl

A potent, hard-t0-detect snythetic opioid is circulating in central Illinois.Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said brorphine has killed just under 20…

An alleged conspiracy to import and distribute deadly fentanyl and synthetic opioids touched Central Illinois. Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia…

JOLIET, Ill. - Will County in northern Illinois has seenthe highest number of fatal opioid overdoses in its history. The county coroner's office reports…

Investigators say a 14-year-old boy found dead last year in his suburban Chicago home died from an overdose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.Maywood…

The Chicago Police Department is planning to expand a pilot program that gives detainees arrested for drugs the option of treatment or jail time.The…

The Peoria Police Department is issuing a ‘buyer beware notice’ to crack cocaine users. A new form of fentanyl laced in rocks of crack is responsible for…

CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner says improved detection and better scrutiny of packages in the mail will reduce the spread of fentanyl and other…

Two medical universities are teaming up to study how the opioid epidemic is affecting southern Illinois.Southern Illinois School of Medicine and the…

The coroner in Will County in northern Illinois says heroin overdose deaths in his jurisdiction were up more than 40 percent in 2016 over 2015. Coroner…

Rockford police seized $8.6 million in cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl in a raid last month in southeast Rockford, officials announced Thursday....