Drugs

President Donald Trump is holding his first Make America Great Again rally of 2019 in the El Paso County Coliseum in Texas, Monday at 7:00 p.m. MT.

First Lady Melania Trump discussed emerging threats and solutions in a Thursday opioid crisis briefing at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

First Lady Melania Trump praised and awarded youth at a conference of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition (CADCA) in National Harbor, Maryland, Thursday hailing them as “our greatest agents for change.”

It has been confirmed through autopsy that Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the now-defunct video sharing platform Vine, died of an accidental drug overdose in December. Kroll reportedly has a mixture of drugs in his system including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.

Louisiana’s St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office says an armed robber entered a drug store Monday, demanded drugs, and was shot dead.

(AFP) — Singapore insisted Tuesday it would still cane a British man convicted of drug smuggling despite a plea from London not to proceed with the punishment.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Authorities in Latvia have confiscated two tons of cocaine with a street value of a billion euros ($1.15 billion), the largest seizure ever in the Baltic country.

Federal immigration officials seized enough fentanyl — one of the deadliest drugs in the world — last year to kill nearly twice the entire population of the United States. 

An illegal migrant suspected of dealing cocaine and heroin has been caught roving the streets with an axe and meat cleaver after police lost him last year.

MADRID (AP) – Spanish police say they have seized 3.25 metric tons (3.64 short tons) of hashish in two operations against drug trafficking across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Around 120 vulnerable children are being monitored by police and social services in Swindon for fear they could get pulled into drug dealing, the youngest just four years old.

Italian narcotic police carried out a major drug bust in the northern Italian seaside town of Viareggio Saturday, arresting 17 Moroccan immigrants believed to be responsible for dealing drugs in the area.

Officers forced Jackson to undergo a rectal search, but failed to find the drugs they claim to have believed he was storing in his colon.

Sen. Chuck Schumer threatened Thursday to keep a government shutdown running into 2019 unless President Donald Trump gives up on his December push for a border wall. 

A Florida prisoner who smuggled drugs into jail in her vagina has been charged with murder after another inmate overdosed on the illegally imported substance, police say.

The vast majority of Americans oppose reducing penalties and sentences for drug traffickers who have helped fuel the country’s opioid crisis that has now killed than the Vietnam War. 

The legal marijuana industry is celebrating the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday afternoon.

A French court in Marseille has convicted 19 people belonging to a drug selling network that was led by a man who specialised in educating people about drug addiction. The 19 members of the network were handed down sentences of between

Locals in the Italian city of Perugia have called for the government to close “ethnic clubs” in their neighbourhood after claims that they were linked to violence, drugs, and prostitution.

Italian police have arrested three migrant men, two Senegalese and one Nigerian, in connection with the alleged drugging, rape, and murder of 16-year-old Desirée Mariottini.

A damning report has found that Swedish government-run homes for drug addicts are awash with so many drugs that several people have even died from drug-related causes in the last five years while in care.

The United States “needs a bigger stick” to stop the inflow of Chinese-made fentanyl drugs into the United States, Homeland Defense secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Oct. 10. 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the national police to release a report Tuesday accusing seven top members of law enforcement of drug trafficking, allegedly reselling drugs confiscated in raids to turn a profit.

California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom (D) says San Francisco is “too permissive” toward drug use and behavior taking place in the city’s streets. 

A drug dealer has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for trafficking children across the country to make sales in other towns in the first conviction of its kind in the UK.

Police are looking for two women who allegedly drugged and robbed a partygoer at gunpoint, taking $200,000 from him after meeting him in a nightclub in September.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized 712 kilograms (1,566 pounds) of heroin found in two Iranian trucks entering Bulgaria from Turkey.

An Ohio strip club had its liquor license revoked Thursday for allegedly accepting food stamps for lap dances and illegal drugs.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed in a report Wednesday that Colombia produced record yields of cocaine in 2017, a major blow to joint U.S.-Colombian investment in dissuading peasants from harvesting coca leaf and an outcome some conservatives predicted as inevitable to peace talks with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The New Jersey couple accused of stealing more than $400,000 from an online fundraiser for a homeless veteran is likely to face charges, according to a lawyer representing the couple.