drug abuse

A man in St. Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced to prison on Friday after stabbing his wife to death during a family Bible study in 2023.

The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, was removed from question period at the Parliament’s House of Commons on Tuesday after condemning radical leftist Justin Trudeau, branding his policies “wacko” and refusing to withdraw the insult.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio declared a national emergency on Friday over surging abuse of kush, an addictive drug that can be manufactured from powdered human bones. Addicts have been digging up graves to get the bones they need, prompting the police to station guards around cemeteries in the capital city of Freetown.

An Indiana couple is facing felony neglect charges after their six-month-old baby died from fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity.

The CDC found increased rates of hopelessness, sadness, and suicidality among “LGBQ+” students relative to their “heterosexual” counterparts.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is set to use Hunter Biden’s drug abuse as a defense against House Republican investigations into his potential wire fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering violations, among others.

Richie Greenberg, former independent mayoral candidate in San Francisco, California, said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak that the majority of the city’s residents have “no hope for a return” to the normalcy of its “pre-pandemic” status quo.

While experts are warning that the country could run out of gas as early as February, German political parties are now bickering about how liberal new laws legalising cannabis should be.

Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, made an unplanned stop Monday during his campaign to take several Pennsylvanians struggling with drug addiction to a detox center for treatment.

Number of Scottish cannabis users being hospitalised with psychiatric issues has soared since the drug was semi-decriminalised.

Drug abusers are to be treated like they have “a health problem” rather than a propensity to indulge in self-destructive and sometimes criminal behaviour in Scotland, with terms like “alcoholic” and “addict” scrapped in favour of woke alternatives.

President Joe Biden’s administration is rolling out a new plan to combat the rise in drug overdose deaths, including establishing clean needle exchange programs and providing fentanyl testing strips for drug users across the country.

A recent poll suggests 18 percent of Americans believe they can rely on none or one for personal support amid the rise in Nihilism and less frequent church membership.

A judge has turned in his judicial robes in protest at the decision not to try a Malian migrant alleged to have beaten an elderly Jewish woman and thrown her to her death from a balcony while shouting “Allah Akbar!” on grounds that he was suffering from a delirious episode induced by heavy cannabis abuse. 

A homeless woman who has battled drug abuse, addiction, and abandonment successfully applied for a job at a Tennessee Kroger after sleeping in the store’s parking lot.

Mental health disorders linked to the lockdowns are disproportionately plaguing minorities and young adults in the U.S., CDC reports.

The debate over how long America’s economy should be kept in a medically-induced coma while we “socially distance” to fight the Wuhan coronavirus is usually phrased as a choice between saving lives and mitigating economic damage.

First Lady Melania Trump shined a light on what she noted as the “dangers” associated with e-cigarettes and vaping among American youth during a historic address to kick off Red Ribbon Week. 

Los Angeles police have arrested Democratic donor Ed Buck after another incident of sex play in his home almost turned fatal, according to authorities.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams warns marijuana use is particularly dangerous for the developing brain in young people and pregnant women.

The abuse of illicit narcotics in Iraqi Kurdistan is “rising year by year,” an official from the region’s security apparatus reportedly declared this week after the local government published figures on substantial seizures of heroin and the arrest of hundreds of drug offenders in recent months.

Pompeo to testify to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on expanding efforts against drug abuse and narcotics trafficking.

The father of the alleged juvenile transgender STEM School shooter is reportedly an illegal alien and serial felon,  jailed for domestic violence and deported twice back to Mexico.

A WalletHub report released on Monday shows the District of Columbia ranked number one in the nation for drug problems.

Drug Czar Jim Carroll told Breitbart News that “93 percent of heroin” in the country “comes from Mexico” ahead of National Takeback Day.

Federal prosecutors charged 60 physicians and pharmacists from Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Alabama on Wednesday for illegally dealing opioids.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss opioid addiction and abuse with host Alex Marlow.

Two Tennessee state lawmakers have filed a bill that would seek to prosecute pregnant women who are abusing narcotic drugs and whose babies are born harmed or addicted to drugs.

The left is shrieking about President Donald Trump committing “war crimes” at the border by using tear gas to disperse a mob of violent migrants, while the media try very hard to keep anyone from remembering the sainted Barack Obama repeatedly did the same thing. All of these hysterics are curiously silent about the real chemical weapons attack perpetrated at the U.S. border: the fentanyl epidemic.

A Texas mother faces charges of child endangerment after her two-year-old son tested positive for methamphetamine and heroin.

A damning report has found that Swedish government-run homes for drug addicts are awash with so many drugs that several people have even died from drug-related causes in the last five years while in care.

Walmart pharmacies will restrict some opioid prescriptions to just seven days at a time and will allow no more than a 50-milligram dosage of morphine per day.

Democrat Eric Schneiderman, who has now resigned as New York’s attorney general, stands accused of a wide range of aberrant behavior, including drug abuse, according to a lengthy report.

A traveling memorial to people who have died of an opioid overdose will be in Washington, D.C. April 12-18 at the Ellipse in President’s Park. 

More studies of the opioid crisis are stressing that prescription painkillers are not the driving force behind increased drug abuse and overdose deaths, contrary to a hardening media and political consensus that doctors and drug companies are the primary villains of the opioid saga.

A Kansas woman is under investigation after feeding her three children French toast laced with the drug PCP. The breakfast sent the mother and her children to hospital, authorities say.