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The Scottish government has proposed decriminalising drugs for personal use to tackle one of Europe’s highest overdose death rates.

Italian court sentenced migrant who filmed himself sexually abusing a woman he had given drugs to and who later died of an overdose.

A Florida police officer who overdosed after being accidentally exposed to fentanyl was saved by fellow officers who administered Narcan to her.

Three Afghan migrants have been convicted by a court for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a case that has shocked Austria.

Radio WWJ 950’s overnight news anchor, 57-year-old Jim Matthews, was found murdered in his Chesterfield Township, Michigan, home on Friday.

The amount of fentanyl seized nationwide tripled in July to 203 percent compared to the month of June, according to CBP data.

Police found a huge number of suspected fentanyl pills tucked inside a spare tire in Phoenix, Arizona, during a recent investigation.

Two Texas high school seniors who were discovered dead this month had fentanyl in their system, according to a toxicology report, and a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged for allegedly supplying drugs to the teens, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has announced.

Police say they found a loaded anti-tank weapon at an address in the city of Zaragoza as well as the victim of an apparent drug overdose.

Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R) vowed during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday to put more police officers on the streets of Wisconsin to help combat a rise in drug overdoses if she is elected governor.

A homeless man and self-proclaimed “old-school junkie,” James, reportedly moved from Texas to San Francisco, California because “it’s f*****g easy” to get money and food stamps from the city, as it pays for him to have Amazon Prime and Netflix on his phone.

The drug dealer who allegedly sold “The Wire” actor Michael K. Williams fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in his death last year was a repeat offender, and had been released from custody under New York’s bail reform.

Authorities in Louisiana say they have identified three persons of interest after locating a woman’s body that was stuffed in a plastic storage container in a pickup truck.

Police say they discovered roughly 100 bags of fentanyl in the bedroom of a 13-year-old Connecticut boy who recently died after overdosing on the drug at school.

Short-staffing issues at Riker’s Island cause chaos as brawls, parties, and overdoses are normal at the correctional facility.

Deadly fentanyl overdoses in San Diego County, California, surged by more than triple during the coronavirus lockdowns, sparking concerns among local law enforcement officials.

Former Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum came out as bisexual in an interview with Tamron Hall following an incident in March in which authorities responded to reports of a suspected drug overdose and discovered a nude, inebriated Gillum in a Miami hotel.

Former Democrat Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum opened up in an interview with Tamron Hall scheduled to air next week about the South Beach hotel incident that derailed his political career.

The California Department of Public Health released a report that showed deaths from drug overdoses increased 70% in San Francisco last year.

A dangerous social media challenge on TikTok has resulted in the tragic death of an Oklahoma teenager by overdose.

British-born Grime Rapper Ceon Broughton had his manslaughter conviction overturned by the High Court on Tuesday, as the court found his providing a lethal dose of a hallucinogenic drug to his former girlfriend and his failure to seek medical attention

The British and Scottish governments will meet in Glasglow this week to hold summits on the public health emergency in Scotland.

A Virginia judge has sentenced a couple to 20 years each in prison in connection with the death of their two-month-old through a drug overdose, authorities said.

Donald Trump’s border security policies helped reduce deaths from opioid overdoses in 2018 relative to 2017, said Dr. Nicole Saphier.

The number of drug deaths dropped sharply in 2018 after 28 years of rising casualties, and Americans’ life expectancy also reversed its decline, rising by one month to 78.7 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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

A bill signed into law Monday by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) will allow prosecutors to charge drug dealers with second-degree murder in cases involving deaths from drug overdose.

Timothy Dean, 55, is the second body to be found in Ed Buck’s apartment in the last two years.

The nation’s opioid crisis is killing young white American men more than any other demographic group, new research from the federal government reveals.

It has been confirmed through autopsy that Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the now-defunct video sharing platform Vine, died of an accidental drug overdose in December. Kroll reportedly has a mixture of drugs in his system including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.

Investigators say that transplants from victims of opioid overdose are as safe and effective as those who come from trauma death — and even those who die of natural causes.

The combination of Mexican drug cartel super-labs increasing the purity of illegal drugs, and an ongoing prescription painkiller boom, is set to drive up overdose death rates in California.

U.S. Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions has described drug overdose deaths in the United States, which more than doubled the worldwide total number of terrorism-linked fatalities last year, as “the top lethal issue” in the country, echoing other national security officials from President Donald Trump’s administration.

A Kentucky man allegedly overdosed on a synthetic street drug and tried to bite officers after they repeatedly tasered him, video footage of the incident shows.

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Tuesday morning. Rosenstein, along with acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Chuck Rosenberg, and other prominent officials in law enforcement addressed the media at the DEA’s headquarters in Arlington, VA to discuss the ongoing response to the nation’s staggering opioid epidemic.

A father who found his son’s stash of heroin in the house got so angry with his son that he overdosed on the heroin himself and almost died in the process just so he could teach his son a lesson.