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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 unprecedented U.S.-led air campaign against the Taliban’s economic engine, opium and heroin, has destroyed 73 drug labs and deprived the narco-jihadist group of $42 million in proceeds since President Donald Trump authorized the operations in November.

A U.S. federal court has reportedly convicted two Afghan nationals this year in connection to a multi-million-dollar scheme to smuggle “tons” of Taliban-linked heroin from Afghanistan into the United States.

John Walters, head of the George W. Bush White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and COO of the conservative Hudson Institute, gave his thoughts on the opioid crises and President Donald Trump’s plan to tackle it on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.

A Nebraska man accused of filing a false police report found himself in more hot water after surveillance video caught him trying to stash cocaine in the interrogation room ceiling at the police station, authorities said.

Two Tennessee men have been accused of running a food stamp fraud scheme in which they traded food stamp benefits for cash and heroin.

Despite dire predictions of “crackdowns,” questions remain among legal experts as to just how significantly Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind an Eric Holder-era guidance on marijuana prosecutions will change patterns of prosecution.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions created a new “senior position” at the Department of Justice Wednesday, director of opioid enforcement and prevention efforts, to help combat what is now far and away the deadliest drug epidemic in American history.

U.S. and Afghan forces targeted Taliban drug labs for the first time on Sunday in the first significant use of new authorities under the Trump administration, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Monday.

In another extraordinary outburst, Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro accused Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos of drug-trafficking despite substantial evidence his regime sells huge quantities of narcotics itself.

An Ohio elementary school teacher, who allegedly let kids do acid inside her home, is facing multiple charges.

President Donald Trump’s administration has resuscitated the U.S.-backed efforts to combat the deadly opium crop and its heroin derivative in Afghanistan, triggering an increase in interdiction and eradication activity after counternarcotics operations nearly disappeared over the last few years.

President Donald Trump should declare a national emergency in response to the nearly 142 Americans killed each day by the opioid crisis gripping the United States, a bipartisan White House panel has found.

United States Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas announced Monday that a federal judge sentenced a Louisiana woman to six and a half years in prison for her role in a massive opioid “pill mill” ring.

Al-Arabiya reports that smugglers have “resorted to some desperate measures” to slip drugs and alcohol into Saudi Arabia.

Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro demanded an official, public apology from the United States Department of the Treasury after its announcement of a sanction on Vice President Tareck el Aissami, whom the Treasury accused of having known ties to a variety of terrorist and drug trafficking outfits.

The United States Department of Treasury has designated Venezuela’s vice president, Tareck el Aissami, a “Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker” for engaging in drug deals throughout the Western Hemisphere. Multiple reports in the past decade have tied El Aissami to groups as varied as the Mexican Zetas cartel and Hezbollah.

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has experienced a spike in heroin overdose cases in the past 32 hours.

An estimated 300 Marines are reportedly gearing up to deploy to the Taliban stronghold and top opium-producing province of Helmand, Afghanistan, as part of a task force expected to train members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would extend the war on drugs that won him the presidency in order to postpone anti-drug operations while the police conducted a “cleansing” of corrupt police abusing their authority.

Shiite Iran’s narco-jihadist proxy Hezbollah is operating a “virtually unopposed drug trafficking operation” in South America with links to the terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), reports the bipartisan House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.

China has agreed to invest 100 million yuan — more than $14 million — in new equipment for the Philippine police to be used in President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing campaign against drug crime.

Only an estimated one percent of the heroin seized by law enforcement in the United States originates from the Southwest Asia region that includes Afghanistan, the top producer of opium and heroin in the world, reports the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in its latest National Drug Threat Assessment.

A pair of police officers serving a warrant outside of Macon, Georgia, were shot early Monday morning, according to Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials.

The Denver Police Department is asking the city for help after facing a storage space shortage for confiscated marijuana.

55-year-old mother Basira Binuyo, a pilgrim on the way to the mandatory Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca known as hajj, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after testing positive for ingesting drugs for trafficking.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has warned imprisoned Chinese drug lords — and those still at large who have since left the Philippines — not to continue to disturb the peace in his nation, warning them that, should they remain active in the drug trade, “you will die.”

A couple from Layland, West Virginia, have been arrested and charged with trying to sell their own baby for drugs, a report reveals.

The president-elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has promised to use the money left over from his presidential campaign as a bounty to law enforcement officers who kill those suspected of drug dealing.

Drug related crime has increased by ten per cent this year in the Austrian capital of Vienna largely due to an influx of Nigerian migrants. Police in Vienna have announced they will be taking measures as of 1st June to stem

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.

Lawmakers in Georgia are voting on legislation that would remove the state’s current lifetime ban on drug offenders getting food stamps after their release.

North Africans are turning Berlin’s notorious “Kotti” area into a no-go zone, according to a veteran drug dealer. One of the most notorious areas in all of Berlin for drug dealing and petty thefts is the area outside the Kottbusser

Four men living in Utah have been arrested and charged with gang raping and sodomizing a nine-year-old girl while the child’s mother smoked meth in the next room on Easter Day this year.

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.