Tag: Drugs

FILE - In this March 16, 2013 file photo, an officer of the Prosecutor General's Office guards packages containing cocaine during a media presentation at the airport in Tumaco, Colombia. A year after the peace accords between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in 2016, the city is disputed among criminal gangs and a dissident FARC movement, all of which are recruiting former rebels whose only marketable skill is wielding a gun.

Cocaine production in Colombia jumped 19 percent in 2017

Robert King · June 25, 2018 4:24 pm

Cocaine production in Colombia has increased five-fold since US helped broker peace deal: DHS official

Anna Giaritelli · June 21, 2018 10:00 am

Why Trump’s New Opioids Ads Are a Good Start

Andrew Egger · June 7, 2018 7:42 pm

President Trump and Kim Kardashian West. Kardashian West urged the president to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, who is serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense.

Trump commutes Alice Johnson’s life sentence in win for Kim Kardashian

Katelyn Caralle · June 6, 2018 4:31 pm

Take Drugs, Not a Ton, Mostly Hallucinogens

Alice B. Lloyd · May 30, 2018 10:26 am

A reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure.

National Security

Fentanyl seizures at US-Mexico border up 750 percent

Anna Giaritelli · May 23, 2018 11:04 am

The Killa in Manila

Christopher Caldwell · May 22, 2018 9:53 am

Posters comparing lethal amounts of heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil, are on display during a news conference about the dangers of fentanyl.

Washington, DC, has the biggest drug problems in America, study shows

Anna Giaritelli · May 14, 2018 2:05 pm

Louisville Drug Seizure

National Security

Customs officers find $17M worth of cocaine in Kentucky

Anna Giaritelli · April 26, 2018 9:27 pm

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb listens during an interview with The Associated Press in New York on Monday, March 5, 2018. Gottlieb said Monday that he needs more staffers to intercept opioids that are being disguised as other drugs and supplements.

FDA chief: ‘A lot of blame’ to go around on high drug prices

Robert King · April 19, 2018 10:30 pm

heroin and drug taking.

MS-13 member ordered drugs shipped in Little Debbie box while in prison

Anna Giaritelli · April 17, 2018 8:57 pm

Bernie Sanders wants to fine opioid manufacturers for role in overdose crisis

Kimberly Leonard · April 17, 2018 7:41 pm