opiod crisis

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials report fentanyl smugglers are significantly increasing their use of the U.S. Postal Service and other express consignment carriers to bring the deadly drugs into the United States.

San Francisco’s government is allowing Honduran drug dealers to prey on Americans, a homeless drug addict told Micheal Shellenberg, the author of a book about the city government’s support for drug addiction.

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.

On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) said that Border Patrol should have its resources expanded to ensure illegal drugs stay out because “the opioid crisis does not need any help in getting any worse.” Wild

The House Democrats failed to pass a bill Tuesday to permit treatments for opioid use to go to market, despite having control of the House.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Melissa Etheridge said Wednesday that her son Beckett Cypher has died.

First Lady Melania Trump was graceful as she spoke at the National Opioid Summit at the Department of Justice building on Friday. 

More than 900 Americans died every week from opioid-related overdoses in 2017. Every American community, big or small, has experienced the epidemic’s merciless, corrosive advance across our cities and towns. It is human tragedy, a family tragedy, and a national crisis.

Mexican authorities announced the seizure of 50 tons of methamphetamine during a drug lab raid conducted on August 16 by the Mexican Navy in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Drug overdoses, primarily driven by opioids like fentanyl and heroin, killed an unprecedented 72,287 people in the United States in 2017–proving to be more lethal than terrorist attacks across the world during the same period, a Breitbart News analysis of U.S. government data shows.

On Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new plan to open safe drug shooting centers – supervised drug injection facilities that he says will help curb the opioid crisis sweeping the Big Apple.

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.

First Lady Melania Trump visited the “Prescribed to Death” memorial this week for Americans who have died in the opioid crisis.

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 traveling memorial to people who have died of an opioid overdose will be in Washington, D.C. April 12-18 at the Ellipse in President’s Park.