ST. BERNARD PARISH, Louisiana – A total of 19 Louisiana residents, including three juveniles, were arrested by the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office for their alleged involvement in distributing cocaine and heroin throughout the area.
Donald Trump’s campaign published its plan to combat the nation’s epidemic of drug-overdose deaths, saying President Trump would control immigration, correct “misguided” regulations that inflame addiction problems, and get more help for drug addicts.
The estimated opium poppy plant production and its cultivation area in Afghanistan have increased more than 25-fold over the course of the ongoing war in the country to 4,800 metric tons and 201,000 hectares (ha), respectively, according to the United Nations.
A Washington Post reporter misconstrued Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remarks on heroin trafficking and the deadly overdose epidemic.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Prescription pain-killers are more prevalent than people in Louisiana; according to a new report that shows widespread opioid issues across eight states.
Officers assigned to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Texas seized over $500,000 in drugs this week at international border crossings from Mexico.
Cellphone video captured the moment a toddler at a Lawrence, MA Dollar Store tried to wake her mother after a drug overdose. In the video, captured Sunday, a young woman can be seen passed out on the ground in the toy section while her
Italian anti-drug units, over a 32-month period, intercepted 20 enormous freighters used to traffic a collective 280 tons of hashish valued at about $3.2 billion through territory near Libya believed to be controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports The New York Times (NYT).
Five-Year-Old New Jersey Boy Brings 30 Packets of Heroin to School
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the area under opium cultivation in the country has increased 23 fold to an area nearly ten times the size of Washington, D.C., while production of the illicit drug has skyrocketed 18-fold, from 185 metric tons to 3,300.
Police in East Liverpool, OH are warning drug users to think again before abusing drugs. On Thursday, the City of East Liverpool shared photos on their Facebook page of two adults passed out in a car, Fox 4 reports. Police were responding to
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers seized nearly $2 million in narcotics and other drugs being smuggled into Texas from Mexico over the weekend.
A tweeted message from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested Sunday that he’s still supporting stalled legislation that would release many convicts from federal prison.
Police in Kentucky released footage of a February car crash that threw a seven-month-old baby out as the car rolled on the side of the highway. Fox 4 reports the baby is OK now, but was in critical condition following the
During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) promoted the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, a piece of legislation designed to address opioid addictions. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “I’m Senator Rob Portman. I’m here in Ohio today
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country’s heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they’ve found it mixed with or passed off as heroin.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all remaining charges against the three Baltimore police officers who were still awaiting trial in Freddie Gray’ death, blaming police for a biased investigation that failed to produce a single conviction.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials made the six arrests Wednesday while executing six state search warrants. In addition to the arrests, the investigation resulted in the seizure of three firearms, two vehicles, 13 ounces of black tar heroin and more than $106,505 “in suspected drug proceeds.”
Two of the six Baltimore police officers charged with manslaughter in the Freddie Gray case have filed a civil suit against Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore State’s Attorney, for defamation and invasion of privacy.
A Tustin man originally arrested for an outstanding warrant and possession of drug paraphernalia has now been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly “getting his dog high on meth [and] heroin.”
A California man faces animal cruelty charges after authorities say his dog tested positive for both meth and heroin.
BENNETT: The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act now before Congress is based on a lie — that drug dealing is not a violent crime. Americans have been told this lie for years even as we witness the violence and death caused by drug dealers in our communities. Now, this lie is propelling legislation through Congress that will destroy more lives.
The Islamic State (ISIL/IS) is eradicating Afghan opium and heroin production, a major source of revenue for their rival the Taliban, arguing that it is illegal, Voice of America (VOA) has learned from farmers of the illicit crop the eastern part of the country.
A drug, which is purportedly ten thousand times more powerful than morphine, has descended into the United States from drug pushers in Canada, authorities say.
Senators pushing hard to get criminal justice reform passed and onto the President’s desk, aware of the major criticism aimed at them from law enforcement groups, opposition from other Senators, and a host of constituents, have introduced a series of revisions to try to make the bill more palatable to critics. Certainly one of the reason the sponsors are restructuring the bill, which they previously advertised as applying only to nonviolent criminals, is because Senators running for re-election are terrified that releasing more violent criminals may harm their chances to return to Washington.
A man accused of producing and selling heroin in New London, Conn., is gone, after the state gave him back his passport. He has twice missed his court dates, and has likely fled to the Dominican Republic.
A drug 200 times more powerful than heroin has become an epidemic in Chicago, authorities report.
The Department of the Treasury has frozen the U.S.-based assets of the Mexican Laredo Drug Trafficking Organization, a major trafficker of heroin to the U.S.
Authorities in Nashville, Tennessee report that a woman arrested on an outstanding warrant had hidden a packet of heroin in her vagina when apprehended and then tried to eat it during a strip search.
Representative Bob Dold (R-IL) promoted “Lali’s Law,” to “increase access to an overdose antidote called naloxone” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “In the suburbs of Chicago, somebody dies from using heroin every three days. And every single one
President Obama joined the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta this afternoon to discuss the problems of drug addiction and the importance of treating it as a disease instead of a character flaw.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing back against the planned bipartisan rollback of jail sentencing that will put violent drug offenders back out on the streets.
In a moving moment at Saturday night’s ABC News presidential debate, candidate Sen. Ted Cruz shared the story of his half-sister’s battle with drug addiction in the context of the overarching problem of addiction in the United States. Moderator David Muir referenced
Any politician who claims to care about the drug overdose deaths sweeping the nation, but does not demand that we build a wall, deport illegal aliens and end the anchor baby scam, is a liar. In 2014, more people died from drug overdoses than any year in U.S. history: 47,055. That’s more than die in car accidents — and it’s not even close. This is a huge, horrible problem — and it’s a problem caused entirely by the fact that Mexico is on our southern border.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) says a lack of border security is playing a significant role in the increased use of heroin in the U.S. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on “America’s epidemic of heroin and prescription drug abuse,”
Powerful surf brought on by El Niño has caused thousands of syringes to wash ashore at Santa Cruz beaches.
Florida-based drug rehabilitation center Harbor Village is denouncing actor Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone feature in which he glorifies drug lord and mass murderer El Chapo.
Police say that a husband and wife from Alabama overdosed on heroin in the Cincinnati hospital room of their daughter. The woman died, while the man was revived and then arrested.
Both the governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran announced Monday that hundreds of tons of illegal drugs had been smuggled into their respective countries, with record-breaking shipments of contraband making their way in.
A Wisconsin woman has been hit with felony charges after trying to pass off dog food as heroin, authorities said Friday.
