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Mourners gather during a funeral procession for Alireza Tangsiri, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, and others killed in Israeli strikes in late March, in Tehran, Iran, April 1, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
April 1, 2026, 4:53 pm
Israel strikes drug factory in Iran, says it made fentanyl for chemical weapons R&D
Iran says factory makes cancer drugs; top Quds force engineer killed in airstrike; IDF says all ‘critical’ assets of Iran’s arms industry will be targeted by Wednesday
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
This July 19, 2001 file photo shows OxyContin tablets at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
January 23, 2025, 8:44 pm
Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4bn in settlement over the toll of OxyContin
Sackler family to pay $6.5 billion and lose company, Purdue itself to pay $900 million, in settlement announced by NY Attorney General Letitia James after years of litigation
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Illustrative: Fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation in 2019. (US Attorneys Office for Utah via AP)
June 26, 2023, 6:02 pm
Israeli discovery could help brain block urge for highly addictive fentanyl
In breakthrough that could lead to treatment, Hebrew U researchers learn that turning neurons in claustrum structure on and off causes mice to either binge on the drug or ignore it
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A teacher leads his students at the Virgin Mary Procession in Haifa, Israel on April 30, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
May 3, 2023, 1:39 pm
Daily Briefing May 3: Israel’s growing opioid problem; Haifa’s flag-bearing Catholics
Health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand discusses addiction, and Sheba’s collaboration with Fauci, as religion correspondent Canaan Lidor looks at JFNA in Israel and interfaith Haifa
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation in 2019. (US Attorneys Office for Utah via AP)
August 1, 2022, 2:09 pm
Daily Briefing August 1: Fentanyl devastation; did Trump plan West Bank annexation?
US correspondent Jacob Magid on Jared Kushner’s new book and Israel’s move against the PA’s ‘pay-for-slay’; NY reporter Luke Tress on the scourge of opioid overdoses across the US
By ToI Staff
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring talks with University of Richmond students at the school in Richmond, Virginia, October 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
October 31, 2019, 8:13 pm
Virginia sues Teva Pharmaceuticals over opioid crisis
State alleges US subsidiary of Israeli firm misrepresented benefits, risks of products that include fentanyl
By AP
Rapper Mac Miller performs on his Space Migration Tour at Festival Pier in Philadelphia, July 13, 2013. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
October 3, 2019, 1:53 am
3 charged with providing drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller
Men accused of conspiring and distributing cocaine and oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused Jewish musician’s death in September 2018
By ANDREW DALTON
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