January 26, 2020 Arizona border agents find fentanyl taped to man’s thighs during immigration check A would-be drug smuggler was thwarted in Arizona last week after border agents discovered bags of fentanyl taped to his thighs, authorities said
January 16, 2020 Skeleton ‘pill man’ confronts presidential candidates about opioid epidemic "Anyone who wants to run for president, they're gonna end up meeting Pill Man."
January 12, 2020 Newt Gingrich: Tens of thousands of Americans are dying each year from this horrific epidemic Education can save lives and help us fight this killer.
January 1, 2020 Cameron Douglas opens up about struggle with drug addiction: 'I felt something breaking inside of me' Cameron Douglas opened up about his battle with drug addiction Wednesday, highlighting his path to sobriety and describing how he turned his life around.
December 31, 2019 Tom Basile: Top 5 government failures of 2010s As the 2010s come to a close and America begins a new decade, we’re taking stock of the last 10 years. It’s been a wild ride, to be sure.
December 26, 2019 Rwanda makes its own morphine, bypassing dangerous opioid trade Locally produced liquid morphine has become part of Rwanda’s groundbreaking effort to address pain treatment, one of the world’s great disproportions.
December 26, 2019 Matthew Barnett: Opioid epidemic is destroying us — here's a way forward If this opioid crisis is not reversed, thousands more lives will be destroyed.
December 23, 2019 To battle opioid crisis, some track overdoses in real time While the number of drug overdose deaths appears to have fallen nationally in 2018 for the first time in nearly three decades, the overdose death rate remains about seven times higher than a generation ago.
December 15, 2019 OxyContin maker's foreign affiliate selling overdose cure The foreign affiliate of the major pharmaceutical company behind OxyContin, a controversial drug blamed in part for unleashing America’s opioid epidemic, is now expanding to offer an overdose cure.
December 12, 2019 Major League Baseball: Marijuana will no longer be considered a banned substance Major League Baseball (MLB) and its players' union announced Thursday that marijuana will be removed from its list of banned substances and that players will be tested for major opioids, cocaine and other drugs in a new treatment-based approach to drug use.
