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Wyoming Stores Clear 7-OH Kratom Products Under New Bans
People who have been using concentrated kratom extracts to manage pain, withdrawal, or opioid addiction are finding the shelves empty in Casper, Wyoming. Vape stores and other outlets have mostly sold off products containing over-threshold amounts of 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, after a new state law took effect and a temporary federal scheduling order approached. …
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Opioid Prescribing Limits Leave Chronic Pain Patients Behind
Opioid addiction policy in this country now carries two outcomes at once, and a new investigation from WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, sits in the space between them. Prescription opioid overdose deaths fell after the federal government tightened prescribing. Millions of people with chronic pain conditions now have difficulty getting medication they had relied on for …
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Fentanyl Seizures Climb in Colorado as Overdose Deaths Rise
Federal agents have seized 3.2 million fentanyl pills across the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division so far this year, including 500,000 pills in a single Western Slope operation in May. For people using fentanyl in Colorado, or supporting someone who is, the supply picture has not eased the way the national numbers suggest. Eric Neal, assistant …
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Kentucky Overdose Deaths Fell 22.9% to Lowest Level Since 2014
Kentucky recorded 1,110 drug overdose deaths in 2025, a 22.9 percent decrease from the previous year and the lowest annual total in the state since 2014. For people living with opioid addiction and the families around them, the more useful detail sits underneath the headline number, which is what changed in the drug supply and …
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Knox County, Tennessee Overdose Deaths Fell 24% in DEA Surge
A two-month enforcement surge across East Tennessee coincided with a 24 percent decline in Knox County overdose deaths, a result that speaks directly to how local fentanyl supply drives opioid addiction deaths in a single community. The Drug Enforcement Administration announced the conclusion of Operation Knoxville Thunder on June 30, 2026. Working with federal, state, …
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US Cities Mark Overdose Awareness Month With Naloxone Training
August has become the month American municipalities formally confront opioid addiction and overdose, and the observances increasingly come with something concrete attached. Local proclamations across the country now pair remembrance with free naloxone distribution and overdose response training, building toward International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, offers a representative example …
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Michigan Marks Overdose Awareness Day as Deaths Fall Below 1,800
Michigan will observe August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day, under a proclamation issued by Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II. For anyone affected by opioid addiction in the state, the figures the proclamation cites are worth reading closely, because they describe both real progress and a gap that is not closing. August …
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Texas ‘Pill Mill’ Wrote Prescriptions for 3 Million Opioid Pills
A Texas pill mill issued prescriptions for more than 3 million opioid pills over three years, and its sole prescriber has now been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. Enforcement cases like this one change the supply rather than the demand, which is exactly why they matter to anyone living with opioid addiction right now. …
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Michigan Opioid Crisis Bills Signed as Overdose Deaths Fall 47%
The Michigan opioid crisis has eased based on the state’s own numbers due to relief programs. Now, two new laws keep the money and the regulatory machinery behind that trend moving. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package of bipartisan health bills on July 23 as the state reports overdose deaths have fallen 47% since 2021. …
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Fentanyl Powder Seizures Rise as Pill Seizures Fall in Midwest
The fentanyl supply moving through five Midwestern states is changing shape, and the shift matters for anyone tracking overdose risk. Federal seizure data released August 10 shows fentanyl pill seizures falling while fentanyl powder seizures climbing sharply in the same territory. The DEA’s Omaha Field Division seized more than 67,000 fentanyl pills across Iowa, Minnesota, …
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