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# fentanyl

This year
2024
HSE forms national 'red alert' team after clusters of drug overdoses in Dublin and Cork
Each HSE region will be asked to form their own localised response teams in case dangerous batches end up on the market in their area.
Eoghan Dalton
7 Jan
20.4k
Last year
2023
The Explainer: What caused dozens of overdoses in Dublin recently?
17 Nov 2023
3.8k
A potent synthetic opioid was found in the heroin that caused overdoses, but what are nitazenes?
Updated 15 Nov 2023
16.2k
Ireland 'needs to be ready' for increase in fentanyl use amid expected heroin shortage
9 Nov 2023
20.1k
35
Fentanyl being 'constantly monitored' amid fears of drug hitting Irish market, minister says
12 Oct 2023
20.3k
All time
The rise of opiates: How Ireland's 'broken' health service is behind a surge in prescription painkillers
13 Sep 2018
25.7k
30
Prince's family to sue doctor over 'failing to treat opioid addiction'
25 Aug 2018
11.7k
11
Man executed in Nebraska prison using untested lethal injection
15 Aug 2018
34.8k
64
Prosecutor won't file criminal charges in connection with Prince's death
19 Apr 2018
8.3k
9
Drug 100 times more potent than morphine being mixed with heroin and cocaine
31 May 2017
18.4k
30
Warning to drug users over opioid 10,000 times more potent than morphine
10 May 2017
17.0k
22
Warning issued over dangerous new drug in Cork following death of 16-year-old
18 Jan 2017
58.9k
75
Counterfeit pills found at Prince's estate contained drug 50 times more powerful than heroin
22 Aug 2016
17.9k
18
Elephant sedative emerges as new threat in US overdose battle
31 Jul 2016
20.0k
22
Hospitals told to be on the lookout for patients who have taken lethal 'designer drug'
29 Jul 2016
14.8k
8
Warning about 'designer drug' after spate of overdoses in Cork and Dublin
28 Jul 2016
21.0k
34
Chaka Khan checks into rehab in the wake of Prince's death
12 Jul 2016
17.8k
17