Fentanyl

Donald Hutson is one of hundreds of people who have overdosed while in state prisons since May 2017, according to Missouri Department of Corrections records.

Missouri Inmates Are Overdosing On Drugs. How Are They Getting Them?

Shahla Farzan

Destini Hutson spent much of her childhood picturing what life would be like when her dad came home.Over time, her plans turned to the practical: teach…

A kit containing the opioid overdose antidote naloxone.

Health, Science & Environment

Missouri Drug Deaths Increase As National Numbers Fall For The First Time In Decades

Sarah Fentem

The number of drug-related deaths increased by 16% last year, as fatal overdoses declined by an estimated 5.1% nationwide, according to the Centers for…

Detective Melody Quinn of the St. Louis County Police Department leads a class outlining the myths and dangers of the sythetic opioid fentanyl, which was involved in the majority of the county's overdose deaths last year.

Health, Science & Environment

Touching Fentanyl — Or Overdose Victims — Won't Cause First Responders Harm

Sarah Fentem

Officials from the St. Louis County Police Department want the public and the region’s law enforcement to know touching the synthetic opioid fentanyl…

An activist campaign calls on city officials to shut down St. Louis' medium-security jail, commonly known as the Workhouse.

Government, Politics & Issues

St. Louis Workhouse inmate died of fentanyl overdose, autopsy shows

Ashley Lisenby

The inmate who died at St. Louis' Medium Security Institution (MSI) in August died of an accidental fentanyl overdose, the autopsy report shows.Louis L.…

Michelle Pattengill, a technician at L&S Pharmacy in Charleston, Mo., holds a bottle of oxycodone, a prescription opioid.

Health, Science & Environment

Sarah Fentem

The number of opioid-overdose deaths in St. Louis and surrounding counties continued to rise in 2017, although the increase wasn’t as steep as in previous…

Government, Politics & Issues

Rachel Lippmann

Preliminary data from the community health agency NCADA show the number of opioid-related deaths in the St. Louis area rose again last year, as they have…