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.
New York City has sanctioned the city’s first shooting galleries for drug users in the United States, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced in a Tuesday statement.
Taliban jihadists in Kabul, Afghanistan, staged a “graduation” of sorts for drug addicts forced into a brutal withdrawal program allegedly meant to rehabilitate them, the Afghan Bakhtar News Agency reported on Monday.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) gave in last week, after orders from Albany, and told officers to let drug addicts shoot up on the streets and share needles.
For two nights in a row, residents of the northern Paris neighbourhood near the Stalingrad metro station have clashed with drug addicts and dealers, targeting them with mortar fireworks.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to curtail the homeless epidemic by giving people vouchers to use to rent apartments in the city.
A 30-year-old Iraqi migrant with Swedish citizenship has been deported from Denmark for the 17th time after coming to the country consistently for drug deals.
Pandemic lockdowns and leftist-drive riots offer a vision of socialism under a Joe Biden presidency, said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
San Francisco’s health department confirmed that it is providing drugs and alcohol to addicts to keep them from breaking quarantine.
In San Francisco, workers who help the homeless have the names of 236 people who have severe mental illness and 4,000 on a larger list.
Nov. 11 (UPI) — Former Detroit Lions wide receiver and No. 2 overall NFL Draft pick Charles Rogers has died at 38 years old. Rogers’ death was announced Monday morning.
Newly elected Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made history as the first black to hold the post and the first GOP AG in decades.
A heroin addict who allegedly dragged a policeman down a busy street with his car was awarded $11 million by a Bronx jury on Tuesday.
Nearly half of the adults in the United States claim substance abuse has caused problems within their families, according to a Gallup poll.
An Arkansas woman who was arrested for allegedly having drug paraphernalia inside her car claimed her brother fed her a “meth sandwich.”
Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.
The majority of Americans considers drug addiction a top “big issue” in the country, a recent Pew Research Survey shows.
Pope Francis denounced drug addiction Saturday, calling it “gravely harmful to health, human life and society.”
First lady Melania Trump warned students Wednesday at a Liberty University town hall event that drug addiction and overdose may have innocent origins, such as an injury.
San Francisco’s streets are reportedly littered with plastic hypodermic needle caps from the free syringes provided by the city as officials ban the use of plastic straws.
A California police officer added a fourth member to his family this week when he adopted the baby girl of a homeless woman battling a drug addiction.
More studies of the opioid crisis are stressing that prescription painkillers are not the driving force behind increased drug abuse and overdose deaths, contrary to a hardening media and political consensus that doctors and drug companies are the primary villains of the opioid saga.
New studies are challenging the widely accepted idea that prescription drug abuse and economic despair are driving the epidemic of opioid drug abuse.
2017 was the year rising mortality rates for middle-aged whites in America came onto the public and government policy radar screen, two years after a landmark study from Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case first detected the statistical spike. The causes of the White Death are complex, but it seems clear that one of the important factors is the rise of drug addiction, particularly opioids – from prescription painkillers to heroin.
Drug rehabilitation or “rehab” centers are increasingly being seen as a contributing factor in the homeless epidemic that has swept across the Golden State.
President Donald Trump will declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, according to a senior administration official.
Some doubt whether Tiger Woods will ever play professional golf again. However, should Woods play again, tackling his addiction to pain pills would be a logical first step.
According to a new study from Iran’s Drug Control Organization, the number of people regularly consuming drugs has grown from 1.3 million six years ago to at least 2.8 million today. The vast majority of these drug users favor opium, which flows in from Afghanistan.
Two GOP legislators are introducing legislation to let states annually import 500,000 foreign blue-collar workers and white-collar professionals to replace Americans who have fallen out of the workforce and into drug addiction.
President Donald Trump met on Wednesday with victims of opioid addiction and members of his committee who will address the growing crisis.
Four out of ten white working-class men have given up looking for work, says a study by the Economist magazine, which normally champions unrestricted trade and migration.
Welfare is much worse than a way of life for many Americans—it now appears to be a new way of death, according to an expanding body of data and social studies.
State data released last week shows the number of millennials going to California ERs with heroin overdoses increased more than 100 percent between 2012 and 2016.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated, “let’s stop calling Trump voters idiots and fools and call them what they are: f*cking drug addicts.” Maher said, “[L]iberals have to stop calling Trump voters rubes and simpletons,
Could any of the compassion being lavished on drug addicts be extended to their helpless children?
The pervasive war on drugs in the Philippines has challenged the government of President Rodrigo Duterte to find ways to reintegrate drug addicts who surrender to police into society. One program proposes to return these drug offenders to the workforce
MTV is launching a documentary unit called MTV Docs, and the network’s first one-hour documentary will see Macklemore interviewing President Obama in Prescription for Change: Ending America’s Opioid Crisis.
A 17-year-old was shot dead and a friend seriously injured by a Muslim mob in Pakistan, allegedly in retaliation for the arrest of a mentally unstable Hindu man accused of “desecrating” a copy of the Quran.
President Obama and rapper Macklemore discussed drug addiction during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: THE PRESIDENT: Hi, everybody. I’ve got a special guest with me this week – Macklemore. For those of you who don’t share the same love[i]
Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) touted the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hello, I’m Kelly Ayotte, and I’m proud to represent the great state of New Hampshire in
