Tag: War on Drugs

Va. man gets prison for heroin death

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 6:31 am

Holder urges use of overdose-reversal drug

The Associated Press · April 16, 2014 9:39 pm

UK: Ex-Co-op Bank chair charged with drug offenses

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 10:39 am

2 brothers sentenced for dealing in cocaine base

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2014 9:59 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin delivers the State of the State Address at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. On Thursday, April 3, 2014, Shumlin announced an emergency order that would make it harder for physicians to prescribe a new class of drugs that includes Zohydro. Many feel the extended-release pill is prone to abuse, because it's not tamper resistant and contains up to five times more of the narcotic hydrocodone than previously available in other pills. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File)

States rebel against powerful new painkiller

Beth Garbitelli · April 4, 2014 7:50 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Viktor Levchenko, 36, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading "Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts" in Sevastopol, Crimea. Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs, seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus. After Russia's annexation of Crimea methadone was banned. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone

Laura Mills · April 4, 2014 6:55 am

Arkansas to ask court to reconsider drug fine

Andrew DeMillo · April 3, 2014 10:20 pm

FDA approves easy-to-use heroin overdose antidote

lauran-neergaardmary, Clare Jalonick · April 3, 2014 7:19 pm

Support for ballot measures legalizing medical marijuana and similar efforts (like the newly enacted Charlee's Law in Utah legalizing medical cannabis oil) transcends political lines.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, file)

Medical marijuana support transcends political lines

Michelle Malkin · March 26, 2014 4:00 am

Large cocaine stash uncovered at Philippines wharf

Washington Examiner · March 24, 2014 1:54 pm

Suspected Balkan drug boss Darko Saric appears in court in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday March 24, 2014. Saric pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he trafficked 5.7 tons of cocaine from South America to Europe and laundered millions of dollars in drug money. The Serbian authorities accuse Saric of leading a powerful Balkan criminal organization that was involved in cocaine trafficking from Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay through the Balkan countries to western Europe. (AP Photo)

Suspected Balkan drug boss pleads not guilty

Jovana Gec · March 24, 2014 12:25 pm

German customs seizes cocaine addressed to Vatican

Washington Examiner · March 23, 2014 12:26 pm