San Francisco Gets a New Mayor and an Emergency Plan for the Fentanyl Scourge Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, became the city’s 46th mayor on Wednesday and laid out a path to restoring the battered city’s luster.

Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab in Mexico New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous fentanyl production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate.

How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as well as rabbits and chickens.

Fentanyl Rises Again, This Time as Trump’s Diplomatic Weapon Against China The president-elect’s pledge to use tariffs to stem the flow of opioids from China could backfire if Beijing responds by ending counternarcotics cooperation.

How a Death From Fentanyl Transformed a Fishing Fleet The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another.

U.S. to Press China to Stop Flow of Fentanyl President Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to crack down on the Chinese facilities that make chemical compounds used in potent drugs.

Republicans’ Promises to Combat Fentanyl Fall Flat With Some Voters Republicans are making big promises about combating fentanyl. Their words ring hollow to some who know too much about the drug’s deadly toll.

Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl Oregon’s experiment to curb overdoses by decriminalizing small amounts of illicit drugs is in its third year, and life has changed for most everyone in the city of Portland.

U.S. Pressuring China on Fentanyl The Biden administration push comes after cooperation on halting the flow of the drug into the United States was derailed by wider geopolitical tensions.