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Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.

Pope Francis denounced drug addiction Saturday, calling it “gravely harmful to health, human life and society.”

First lady Melania Trump warned students Wednesday at a Liberty University town hall event that drug addiction and overdose may have innocent origins, such as an injury.

San Francisco’s streets are reportedly littered with plastic hypodermic needle caps from the free syringes provided by the city as officials ban the use of plastic straws.

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.

New studies are challenging the widely accepted idea that prescription drug abuse and economic despair are driving the epidemic of opioid drug abuse.

2017 was the year rising mortality rates for middle-aged whites in America came onto the public and government policy radar screen, two years after a landmark study from Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case first detected the statistical spike. The causes of the White Death are complex, but it seems clear that one of the important factors is the rise of drug addiction, particularly opioids – from prescription painkillers to heroin.

President Donald Trump will declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, according to a senior administration official.

Some doubt whether Tiger Woods will ever play professional golf again. However, should Woods play again, tackling his addiction to pain pills would be a logical first step.

According to a new study from Iran’s Drug Control Organization, the number of people regularly consuming drugs has grown from 1.3 million six years ago to at least 2.8 million today. The vast majority of these drug users favor opium, which flows in from Afghanistan.

Two GOP legislators are introducing legislation to let states annually import 500,000 foreign blue-collar workers and white-collar professionals to replace Americans who have fallen out of the workforce and into drug addiction.

President Donald Trump met on Wednesday with victims of opioid addiction and members of his committee who will address the growing crisis.

Four out of ten white working-class men have given up looking for work, says a study by the Economist magazine, which normally champions unrestricted trade and migration.

Welfare is much worse than a way of life for many Americans—it now appears to be a new way of death, according to an expanding body of data and social studies.

State data released last week shows the number of millennials going to California ERs with heroin overdoses increased more than 100 percent between 2012 and 2016.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated, “let’s stop calling Trump voters idiots and fools and call them what they are: f*cking drug addicts.” Maher said, “[L]iberals have to stop calling Trump voters rubes and simpletons,

Could any of the compassion being lavished on drug addicts be extended to their helpless children?

The pervasive war on drugs in the Philippines has challenged the government of President Rodrigo Duterte to find ways to reintegrate drug addicts who surrender to police into society. One program proposes to return these drug offenders to the workforce

MTV is launching a documentary unit called MTV Docs, and the network’s first one-hour documentary will see Macklemore interviewing President Obama in Prescription for Change: Ending America’s Opioid Crisis.

A 17-year-old was shot dead and a friend seriously injured by a Muslim mob in Pakistan, allegedly in retaliation for the arrest of a mentally unstable Hindu man accused of “desecrating” a copy of the Quran.

President Obama and rapper Macklemore discussed drug addiction during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: THE PRESIDENT: Hi, everybody. I’ve got a special guest with me this week – Macklemore. For those of you who don’t share the same love[i]

Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) touted the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hello, I’m Kelly Ayotte, and I’m proud to represent the great state of New Hampshire in

GOP presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said, “One of the barriers to getting out of poverty” is for states to properly treat drug addiction, rather than locking up addicts. Christie said of New Jersey law: If you’re a

Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland reportedly died of cardiac arrest, and a member of the late rocker’s band was arrested for possessing cocaine found on the tour bus where Weiland died.

San Francisco’s needle exchange program, which began in 1988 in an attempt to prevent, reduce and eventually thwart the spread of HIV among users, has spiraled out of control and into a public health disaster for inhabitants of the burgeoning city.

“Pain is part of life” is not what the culture of 2015 wants to hear, and it’s bound to raise sarcastic chuckles as the impromptu slogan of Bush’s presidential campaign… but he’s right, and the quest to avoid pain has gone far beyond the point of diminishing returns. This is true of every form of discomfort – from physical and emotional pain, to economic anxiety and the “trigger words” culture of hyper-sensitivity on campus.

The New York Post reported Wednesday that Hillary’s newest addition to her campaign communications team was arrested for drug possession two years ago. Zac Petkanas is a former Media Matters operative who has worked for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

When most Americans hear the word heroin, they probably imagine a junkie underneath a highway overpass or an aging rock star with a needle sticking out of his arm. But the face of heroin abuse and addiction in America has changed dramatically in the last few years, and Mexican cartel drug traffickers are making sure those deadly little “balloons” filled with black-tar venom get into the hands of Middle America’s youth.