Tag: Drugs

A stethoscope being held up by blue and red rope.

Community and Family

A bipartisan mental health and addiction treatment success story

Debbie Stabenow, Roy Blunt · October 31, 2026 1:00 pm

Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom during her murder trial.

Lindsay Clancy tragedy exposes blind spot in modern psychiatry

Alexander Herbert · October 31, 2026 9:00 am

A cannabis plant that is close to harvest grows in a grow room at the Greenleaf Medical Cannabis facility in Richmond, Va., June 17, 2021.

DEA begins granting federal approval to more than 900 medical marijuana dispensaries

David Zimmermann · October 30, 2026 3:36 pm

A prisoner with MS-13 gang tattoos

Trump officials taking more steps to fight cartels with national security tools

Hudson Crozier · October 29, 2026 1:03 pm

Large amounts of narcotics seized in a drug bust.

Fifteen charged in DC drug bust for transnational meth and GBL trafficking ring

Mackenzie Chase · October 28, 2026 3:48 pm

Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, is led to a waiting vehicle as she leaves federal court, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Louise Lucas indictment suggests lawmakers knew about criminal marijuana enterprise

Hudson Crozier · October 23, 2026 2:29 pm

A closeup view of a microscope taking a look at a slide meningitis causing fungus Exserohilum rostratum at the Mycotic lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Oct. 12, 2012 in Atlanta. The staff and technicians have been working around the clock to confirm cases and inform the public regarding the multi-state meningitis outbreak that has resulted in 14 deaths. The fungal outbreak is believed to have started at New England Compounding Center where a steroid injection shipment was contaminated with the fungus. (AP Photo/Pouya Dianat)

The same Chinese laboratories behind fentanyl have a new $100 million product: ‘Wellness’ injections

Anahita Dua · October 12, 2026 9:00 am

Mifepristone tablets sit on a table

We found abortion drugs in your water. You could be microdosing them every day

Elise Rose · October 10, 2026 8:00 am

Vice President JD Vance speaks at a rally at the Allen County Regional Airport, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 in Lima, Ohio.

Vance jokes he’ll meet Amy Acton at the bar: ‘She’s into that sort of thing’

David Zimmermann · October 9, 2026 5:06 pm

Marijuana China

America has a new marijuana mafia — and it answers to Beijing

Kristen A. Ullman · October 8, 2026 10:00 am

Though Department of Health and Human Services officials have not released a demographic breakdown of those who they say picked health care plans through the exchanges, it's been widely suggested by health care experts that those with high medical costs are the ones most likely to endure the arduous sign-up process. This creates the potential for a much more expensive risk pool than anticipated. (Photo: Thinkstock)

I’m a doctor, and I’m sick of watching my patients go bankrupt just to stay alive

Eric Wargotz · October 6, 2026 11:00 am

Food and Drug Administration's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee recently voted against recommending the approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD.

Stop forcing vets abroad: Trump’s FDA is bringing a game-changing PTSD treatment home

Kyle Diamantas, Mike Davis · October 6, 2026 5:00 am