drug overdoses

U.S. life expectancy declined to a 25-year low in 2021 as nearly 107,000 Americans died from drug overdose deaths last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data published Thursday.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is now backing a proposal to classify fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) as he runs for the United States Senate. The plan comes after years of Ryan’s opposition to cracking down on fentanyl. 

Republican Jim Bognet, running against Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright in Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District, says the United States must make mercilessly prosecuting fentanyl traffickers a national priority.

Two Texas high school seniors who were discovered dead this month had fentanyl in their system, according to a toxicology report, and a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged for allegedly supplying drugs to the teens, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has announced.

Author J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, is out with a provocative new television advertisement on Tuesday calling out establishment media outlets for claiming Americans who want to secure the border and stop the flow of illicit drugs are “racist.”

Drug overdoses in Colorado are seemingly spiking just a few years after the state’s elected Democrats decriminalized the possession of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and meth. 

MDH converted a parking garage into a morgue to deal with a backlog of autopsies of people who have been murdered or have overdosed.

The United States saw more than 93,000 Americans die of drug overdoses in 2020, the most in the nation’s history, amidst the Chinese coronavirus crisis that spurred economic lockdowns, according to the latest Center for Disease Control (CDC) data. 

More than twice as many Americans in San Francisco, California, died from drug overdoses in 2020 as they did from the Chinese coronavirus, data reveals. 

The city of San Francisco will use a $125 million budget surplus to fund “cultural equity” in the arts and help “undocumented families.”

The coronavirus lockdowns are fueling a surge in the number of drug overdoses across the country, one of the Democrats who competed against Joe Biden for the party’s presidential nomination recently acknowledged.

The opioid crisis is killing young, white suburban Americans more than any other demographic in the United States for the second consecutive year.

Beijing on Monday denied U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl killing thousands of Americans each year.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is weighing designating fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD). The deadly synthetic opioid mainly originates in China and is the top driver of the unprecedented number of fatal drug overdoses in the United States, an internal memo obtained by Task & Purpose revealed this week.

President of the National Sheriff’s Association and Marion County, Indiana Sheriff John Layton says China’s announcement last week to ban the deadly opioid fentanyl is a “win for America” and families in the United States. 

Nevada health officials are allowing the overdose reversal drug Narcan to be sold in vending machines in the Las Vegas area.

The United States must tackle the Taliban’s top source of funding in Afghanistan – deadly opium and its heroin derivative – whether there is a peace agreement or not, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko told Breitbart News on Thursday.

Democrat Ted Lieu is the first benefactor to announce he will not keep donations from Ed Buck after a second suspicious death in his home.