Saskatchewan continues to face significant challenges related to Schedule I drugs, particularly fentanyl and methamphetamine, which the provincial government has identified as major drivers of addiction, crime, and overdose harms.

President Donald Trump speaks before signing the HALT Fentanyl Act in the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Reuters) Like fentanyl, nitazene has been tied to China.

President Donald Trump, and had reduced the flow of fentanyl across the border.

Some have attributed that decrease to a reduction in the amount of fentanyl found in street drugs.

However, the peak of the crisis “appears to have passed,” with 2024 figures showing a decline in opioid deaths involving fentanyl. In a January 2026 report, the U.S.

“Metonitazene and protonitazene are substances not widely known to the public at present, but they are considered more potent than fentanyl,” police said.

Police seized 6,765 kilograms of precursor chemicals and “finished product,” including methamphetamine, fentanyl and oxycodone, police said.

Approximately 100,000 fentanyl pills seized during an investigation in Chandler, Ariz.

The task force leads the country in terms of fentanyl seizures this year.

The White House makes an announcement on National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day that fentanyl-related deaths dropped by 22 percent in 2025.

Lewis argued Lauber did not deal fentanyl and was motivated to lie for legal protection.

“Fentanyl is 50x more potent than heroin.” Lab tests conducted by the agency have found that out of every 10 fake pills containing fentanyl, five carry a potentially fatal dose.

Authorities seized thousands of grams of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin. In addition, 600 fentanyl pills, 127 oxycodone doses, 97 doses of hydrocodone, and 67 hallucinogen doses were seized.

They are more resistant than fentanyl to naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses.

Nitazenes come in different forms, and the most common type, isotonitazene, is about five to nine times stronger than fentanyl, the report states.

Fentanyl Named Weapon of Mass Destruction Trump on Dec. 15 also signed an order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, noting that hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives in recent years to the deadly opioid.

To tackle the fentanyl flow, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China to pressure them into taking stronger actions to curb fentanyl trafficking into the United States.

The five newly arrested men have been accused of working with a criminal network that distributed thousands of counterfeit prescription opioid pills laced with fentanyl and other drugs across New York City.

No fentanyl was found in Richins’ house, and the housekeeper’s dealer has said he was in jail and detoxing from drug use when he told detectives in 2023 that he sold fentanyl to Lauber.

On Jan. 29, a jury returned a guilty verdict on four counts but found the coconspirators not guilty of participating in a fentanyl conspiracy.

Synthetic opioid deaths exploded over the past decade, with fentanyl now responsible for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths annually.

Deaths from fentanyl dropped 22 percent from 2024 to 2025 according to CDC figures. The White House said its policies to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into the United States are working.

Zhang's arrest "marks a decisive blow against the ruthless criminal enterprises responsible for flooding our streets with cocaine, meth and deadly fentanyl,” Ricky J.

“For far too long, the Mexican drug cartels have poisoned communities in Pennsylvania and across the country with deadly fentanyl, killing more than 4,000 Pennsylvanians each year,” McCormick said.

Communist China is considered a key contributor to the fentanyl crisis because the majority of chemicals used to assemble illicit fentanyl are known to originate in Chinese chemical companies. A recent report by the U.S.

Carney also noted that fentanyl entering the U.S. via the Canadian border accounts for "1% of U.S. fentanyl imports."

The surge in overdoses was connected to a fentanyl batch that contained high fentanyl levels and caused patients to require four or five doses of naloxone to recover, authorities said. Chandra Philip contributed to this report. 

“I have lost several—both friends and family—to drug use,” “If I could make a difference, especially with narcotics coming north—the fentanyl surge and other various forms of narcotics—that, to me, is the greatest reward, and it’s worth the risk we take

Undercover police bought 55 firearms and 700 grams of cocaine and fentanyl from Brown as they were investigating the ring. A total of 67 illegal guns and 1.5 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl were recovered by the end of the operation.

to Canada increased by over 1,600 percent (with no fentanyl seized in 2020).