Tag: War on Drugs

Georgia Senate backs drug testing for food stamps

Washington Examiner · March 21, 2014 12:00 am

Myanmar rebels, villagers destroy poppy crops

Esther Htusan · March 20, 2014 5:40 am

Drug Problem Still Strong in Myanmar

Washington Examiner · March 17, 2014 12:44 pm

In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, addicts use needles at a cemetery in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. Some junkies lean on white tombstones, tossing dirty needles and syringes into the dry, golden grass. Others squat on the ground, sucking from crude pipes fashioned from plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Myanmar opium fight failing; soldiers shooting up

Esther Htusan · March 17, 2014 10:01 am

Business group: No jobless aid for fired pot users

Washington Examiner · March 16, 2014 4:01 am

Heroin overdoses spur action

Sean Lengell · March 14, 2014 12:00 am

Military: 80 percent of Colombian drugs gets to US

Lolita Baldor · March 13, 2014 5:18 pm

OxyContin maker to offer abuse-resistant Zohydro

Matthew Perrone · March 12, 2014 4:13 pm

Holder: Heroin an urgent ‘public health crisis’

Eric Tucker · March 10, 2014 12:07 pm

An educational pamphlet and samples of naloxone, a drug used to counter the effects of opiate overdose, are displayed at a news conference at the fire station in Taunton, Mass. A recent surge in heroin overdoses in Taunton has shed light on an epidemic that has plagued the state and nation. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Eric Holder: Heroin an ‘urgent public health crisis’

Washington Examiner · March 10, 2014 12:00 am

In this image released by Mexico's Attorney General's Office, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is photographed against a wall after his arrest in the Pacific resort city of Mazatlan, Mexico. An operation through the western Mexican state of Sinaloa last week netted the world's top drug lord, who was captured early Saturday by U.S. and Mexican authorities in Mazatlan, officials from both countries said. (AP Photo/PGR)

Cellphone, wiretaps led to legendary drug lord

adriana-gomez, liconalicia-caldwell · February 24, 2014 12:25 am

Medications containing pseudoephedrine are on display.ÃÂ The West Virginia Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill to make drugs used in the production of methamphetamine available only by prescription. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)

Many cold meds could go prescription-only as West Virginia aims to block meth-making

Associated Press · February 18, 2014 5:00 am