Tag: Fentanyl

• Friday, April 10th 2026 - 17:54 UTC

  Argentina permanently revokes licenses of laboratories implicated in contaminated fentanyl case

  

  Argentina's National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (Anmat) permanently revoked the operating licenses of laboratories HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo, linked to the production of contaminated fentanyl that caused the deaths of at least 111 people between late 2024 and the first half of 2025, in one of the worst health tragedies in the country's recent history.

• Friday, April 3rd 2026 - 00:03 UTC

  Argentine doctors investigated for stealing anesthetics from hospital for use at private parties

  

  The death of a 31-year-old anesthesiologist in Buenos Aires on February 20 has triggered a judicial investigation into the systematic theft of fentanyl and propofol from a major private hospital and their recreational use at private gatherings known in medical circles as “Propo Fest.”

• Tuesday, December 16th 2025 - 09:50 UTC

  US: Illicit fentanyl declared a weapon of mass destruction

  

  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday formally designating illicit fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD). The move shifts the federal government's approach to the opioid crisis from a strictly public health and law enforcement issue to a national security priority.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

  Contaminated fentanyl kills 48 so far in Argentina

  

  This week's issue of Argentina's National Epidemiological Bulletin reported 48 deaths from contaminated fentanyl across 11 of 19 affected healthcare facilities. The contaminated batches, linked to Pharma Group SA and Ramallo SA laboratories, caused fatal invasive infections due to Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia mannitolilytica bacteria.

• Saturday, July 8th 2023 - 14:00 UTC

  US invites countries to combat synthetic drugs, but China, main producer of fentanyl declines

  

  The United States on Friday called on dozens of countries to work together to combat synthetic drugs, but China declined an invitation to attend.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC

  Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

  

  President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 07:30 UTC

  China bows to fight back Trump's tariffs: “if they want to fight, then we will fight”

  

  China on Friday vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to slap 10% tariffs on the remaining US$300 billion in Chinese imports, a move that ended a month-long trade truce.