War on Drugs

Judge Robert Peeler tries a case involving heroin abuse in Warren County Common Pleas Court, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, in Lebanon, Ohio. Peeler is among a growing number of judges and corrections officials across the country trying to combat the fast-growing national heroin problem by fighting heroin needles with treatment needles. Peeler sometimes orders monthly injections of the opiate-blocking drug Vivitrol to heroin users if they are willing. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Business

Courts fight heroin scourge with drug injections

June 22, 2014 2:27 pm

From left, Senate co-leader Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, R-Rockville Centre, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, leave a news conference after announcing legislation to combat the rise of heroin use in the state in the Red Room at the Capitol on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

NY lawmakers craft legislation to cut heroin abuse

Josefa Velasquez -

June 19, 2014 1:28 am

Business

Feds seek ways to expand use of addiction drug

Matthew Perrone -

June 18, 2014 8:21 pm

Retail marijuana grows at 3D Cannabis Center, in Denver. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Columnists

Inside the world of legal marijuana dispensaries in Colorado

Steve Chapman -

June 12, 2014 3:02 pm

News

Shorter sentences backed for some drug prisoners

Eric Tucker -

June 10, 2014 10:28 pm

News

Iran tries to block Afghanistan’s opium boom

ALI AKBAR DAREINI -

June 4, 2014 5:10 am

In a finding that could upend the debate over the war on drugs, it appears that workplace drug testing may help, not hurt, black men. (Thinkstock Image)

Economy

Black men helped by workplace drug testing

Joseph Lawler -

May 30, 2014 1:00 pm

Crime

New York authorities charge 9 in cocaine case

Washington Examiner -

May 29, 2014 7:01 am

Crime

NY lawmakers unveil 25 bills to curb heroin use

Josefa Velasquez -

May 28, 2014 7:23 pm

Crime

Annapolis police announce heroin charges

Washington Examiner -

May 27, 2014 11:35 pm

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Tag: War on Drugs

Courts fight heroin scourge with drug injections

NY lawmakers craft legislation to cut heroin abuse

Feds seek ways to expand use of addiction drug

Inside the world of legal marijuana dispensaries in Colorado

Shorter sentences backed for some drug prisoners

Iran tries to block Afghanistan’s opium boom

Black men helped by workplace drug testing

New York authorities charge 9 in cocaine case

NY lawmakers unveil 25 bills to curb heroin use

Annapolis police announce heroin charges

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