drug addiction

Another state has banned dangerous and addictive substances known as “gas station heroin,” so named because they are typically sold with no restrictions from convenience stores, filling stations and vape shops.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday delivered a fierce condemnation of gambling, denouncing the activity as a “scourge” that ruins families and must be combated.

The Democrat counterproposal to the Republicans’ stop-gap spending bill would fund woke programs and upend President Donald Trump’s executive order to combat crime and fix the homelessness crisis.

The U.S. attorney in Minnesota announced charges against eight Somali migrants connected to $8.4 million in Medicaid billing fraud.

Luis Sharpe, a longtime stalwart on the Arizona Cardinals’ offensive line and a multiple Pro Bowler, has died at the age of 65.

The Investigation and Impeachment Committee of the Colombian House of Representatives announced the start of a preliminary inquiry on Wednesday against far-left President Gustavo Petro over his alleged drug addiction.

Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva said he received threats after he accused President Gustavo Petro of being a drug addict.

Transgender surgery raises the rates of depression, suicidal impulses, anxiety, and drug addiction, a huge new study has found.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a non-opioid pain medication that can prevent people from becoming addicted and at risk of overdosing.

Residents of a Vermont city plagued by rampant homelessness and drug use are speaking out against the “lack of respect” shown for law-abiding citizens, and complaining that they cannot go outside at night due to the crime.

A convicted felon in Kentucky, who nearly died after abusing drugs and wound up in a rehabilitation facility, has become the subject of a heartwarming story after going viral for getting baptized while wearing an ankle monitor.

Parents are facing child endangerment charges after a woman discovered a newborn attached by the umbilical cord to his unconscious mother.

Two parents are facing homicide charges after their 15-month-old baby was found dead from ingesting various drugs, according to officials.

Drug addicts near a firehouse in East Harlem have been seeing people pooping and shooting up outside the facility.

A Florida mother is in custody after her 9-month-old baby boy died of a fentanyl overdose in October of 2023.

A New York City bookstore offering drug addicts services is in danger of being evicted, and some neighbors are relieved.

Democrat-run Philadelphia’s Kensington area is filled with people addicted to the drug called Xylazine, also known as “tranq,” and content creators are using the dire situation for their own gain.

An Oklahoma nursing facility worker was “shocked” to discover a dirty, starving little girl hiding in an elderly resident’s room one day.

A New York City man stood on the street Wednesday with a needle dangling from his arm as the drug crisis plagues citizens.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in its annual World Drug Report released this week that as much as 86 percent of the world’s population has “too little access” to pharmaceutical opioids – despite identifying opioids as “the leading cause of deaths in fatal overdoses.”

The “tranq” drug is taking a costly toll in Philadelphia, and video footage posted Thursday shows those caught in its grip.

Authorities in Los Angeles are warning residents about the spreading “zombie drug” that eats the flesh of users.

Legislation aimed at making neighborhoods and schools safer has fueled California’s addiction and homelessness problems, a sheriff said recently, even as his department works to combat those issues.

Politically correct health bosses in the United Kingdoom have banned the use of the word “alcoholic” for supposedly being too offensive.

Richie Greenberg, former independent mayoral candidate in San Francisco, California, said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak that the majority of the city’s residents have “no hope for a return” to the normalcy of its “pre-pandemic” status quo.

New York officials are offering the state’s first 150 licenses for the legal sale of marijuana, a drug that is addicting Americans, to individuals previously convicted of cannabis offenses.

In an area in Paris’ 18th arrondissement (district) police are forced to escort small children to school due to the dangers posed by local crack addicts and dealers encamped near a local kindergarten.

A new study shows that marijuana use has reached record levels for young adults and may soon become a practice among the majority. 

A 92-year-old man who was brutally attacked in Paris, allegedly by a transgender crack addict, has been given six months to live by doctors.

Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, made an unplanned stop Monday during his campaign to take several Pennsylvanians struggling with drug addiction to a detox center for treatment.

San Francisco city supervisors unveiled a vague set of suggestions to tackle the city’s open-air drug crisis that emphasizes a “soft touch” but with little repercussions for street use. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday announced an initiative to help end drug addiction in the Sunshine State, detailing what has been described as an “expansion of a new, piloted substance abuse and recovery network to disrupt the opioid epidemic” in President Biden’s open borders America. 

A disturbing video shows a group of children getting off the bus in San Francisco and walking through a sea of homeless drug addicts who appear to be shooting up in the middle of the street.

Left-wing Oregon decriminalized drugs and the results are predictably catastrophic.

Landlords and residents in California’s Bay Area are being asked to take in vagrants as homelessness continues to spiral out of control. 

Drug abusers are to be treated like they have “a health problem” rather than a propensity to indulge in self-destructive and sometimes criminal behaviour in Scotland, with terms like “alcoholic” and “addict” scrapped in favour of woke alternatives.