drug addiction

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a non-opioid pain medication that can prevent people from becoming addicted and at risk of overdosing.

A convicted felon in Kentucky, who nearly died after abusing drugs and wound up in a rehabilitation facility, has become the subject of a heartwarming story after going viral for getting baptized while wearing an ankle monitor.

Parents are facing child endangerment charges after a woman discovered a newborn attached by the umbilical cord to his unconscious mother.

Two parents are facing homicide charges after their 15-month-old baby was found dead from ingesting various drugs, according to officials.

A Florida mother is in custody after her 9-month-old baby boy died of a fentanyl overdose in October of 2023.

A New York City bookstore offering drug addicts services is in danger of being evicted, and some neighbors are relieved.

Democrat-run Philadelphia’s Kensington area is filled with people addicted to the drug called Xylazine, also known as “tranq,” and content creators are using the dire situation for their own gain.

A New York City man stood on the street Wednesday with a needle dangling from his arm as the drug crisis plagues citizens.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in its annual World Drug Report released this week that as much as 86 percent of the world’s population has “too little access” to pharmaceutical opioids – despite identifying opioids as “the leading cause of deaths in fatal overdoses.”

The “tranq” drug is taking a costly toll in Philadelphia, and video footage posted Thursday shows those caught in its grip.

Authorities in Los Angeles are warning residents about the spreading “zombie drug” that eats the flesh of users.

Legislation aimed at making neighborhoods and schools safer has fueled California’s addiction and homelessness problems, a sheriff said recently, even as his department works to combat those issues.

Politically correct health bosses in the United Kingdoom have banned the use of the word “alcoholic” for supposedly being too offensive.

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.

New York officials are offering the state’s first 150 licenses for the legal sale of marijuana, a drug that is addicting Americans, to individuals previously convicted of cannabis offenses.

In an area in Paris’ 18th arrondissement (district) police are forced to escort small children to school due to the dangers posed by local crack addicts and dealers encamped near a local kindergarten.

A new study shows that marijuana use has reached record levels for young adults and may soon become a practice among the majority. 

A 92-year-old man who was brutally attacked in Paris, allegedly by a transgender crack addict, has been given six months to live by doctors.

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.

San Francisco city supervisors unveiled a vague set of suggestions to tackle the city’s open-air drug crisis that emphasizes a “soft touch” but with little repercussions for street use. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday announced an initiative to help end drug addiction in the Sunshine State, detailing what has been described as an “expansion of a new, piloted substance abuse and recovery network to disrupt the opioid epidemic” in President Biden’s open borders America. 

A disturbing video shows a group of children getting off the bus in San Francisco and walking through a sea of homeless drug addicts who appear to be shooting up in the middle of the street.

Left-wing Oregon decriminalized drugs and the results are predictably catastrophic.

Landlords and residents in California’s Bay Area are being asked to take in vagrants as homelessness continues to spiral out of control. 

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.

New York City has sanctioned the city’s first shooting galleries for drug users in the United States, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced in a Tuesday statement.

Taliban jihadists in Kabul, Afghanistan, staged a “graduation” of sorts for drug addicts forced into a brutal withdrawal program allegedly meant to rehabilitate them, the Afghan Bakhtar News Agency reported on Monday.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) gave in last week, after orders from Albany, and told officers to let drug addicts shoot up on the streets and share needles. 

For two nights in a row, residents of the northern Paris neighbourhood near the Stalingrad metro station have clashed with drug addicts and dealers, targeting them with mortar fireworks.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to curtail the homeless epidemic by giving people vouchers to use to rent apartments in the city.

A 30-year-old Iraqi migrant with Swedish citizenship has been deported from Denmark for the 17th time after coming to the country consistently for drug deals.

Pandemic lockdowns and leftist-drive riots offer a vision of socialism under a Joe Biden presidency, said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

San Francisco’s health department confirmed that it is providing drugs and alcohol to addicts to keep them from breaking quarantine.

In San Francisco, workers who help the homeless have the names of 236 people who have severe mental illness and 4,000 on a larger list.

Nov. 11 (UPI) — Former Detroit Lions wide receiver and No. 2 overall NFL Draft pick Charles Rogers has died at 38 years old. Rogers’ death was announced Monday morning.

Newly elected Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made history as the first black to hold the post and the first GOP AG in decades.