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On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Correspondent Sara Sidner previewed her special on the issues in San Francisco and stated that COVID shutdowns were a factor in the city’s homeless problem getting worse and stated that drug users

Two arrests were made when authorities found a huge amount of fentanyl in checked bags at Chicago’s Midway Airport.

Police arrested suspects and raided homes across Germany and Italy in a clamp down on members of the Italian ´ndrangheta syndicate.

An American think-tank has launched a lawsuit demanding that the U.S. government hand over files relating to Prince Harry’s visa application in light of his drug taking.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a radical leftist and once-member of the Marxist April 19th (M-19) Movement guerrilla, touted his past as an urban insurgent in a plea to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday to implement “revolutionary” reforms to its Democratic Charter.

Officials have reportedly implemented updated rules to keep people from trying to smuggle drug-laced papers into Illinois’ Cook County Jail. 

The UK government has announced a new ban on “hippy crack” despite the fact that police in the country often ignore existing drug-related crime.

A drug counselor working with the homeless in Democrat-controlled Portland, Oregon, shed light on how activists are apparently working to keep individuals on the streets.

An Africa-born French customs official alleged to have recently bought a huge home in his native Senegal is one of a dozen arrested as part of a cocaine trafficking bust by police.

Hochul and James asked the pharmacies to “commit” to dispensing abortion pills in-store and by mail in a letter on Thursday.

A teenager from San Diego, California, ran through a window and plunged 60 feet after smoking salvia, a legal hallucinogenic plant, and survived, NBC San Diego reported Tuesday.

Four drug overdoses last year in San Francisco were linked to xylazine, a powerful animal sedative that is known on the street as “tranq” and which was found mixed with fentanyl in the bodies of the victims.

Most voters give President Biden a “poor” or “fair” rating for how he is handling the fentanyl crisis in the country, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. 

Two former employees of Michigan’s Macomb County Medical Examiner’s Office stand accused of stealing drugs from bodies at the morgue.

A 21-year-old Tunisian suspected of drug dealing was arrested this week in the city of Toulon after attacking French police officers, injuring two.

Parents are protesting plans for an opioid recovery center to open next to an after-school club for children. 

A Vancouver man named Jerry Martin is floating a business plan to open a store that would sell crack, meth, and heroin over the counter as soon as British Columbia decriminalizes hard drugs — a policy announced in May and scheduled to take effect on January 31, 2023.

Woke royal Harry, Duke of Sussex, has put his U.S. visa “at risk” by admitting to drug abuse both in his home country and California, according to immigration experts. 

A 27-year-old man in Greeley, Colorado, will spend a long time in prison after dealing fentanyl, a drug that continues taking American lives.

Officials shut down Boulder, Colorado’s main library recently after methamphetamine, an extremely addictive chemical substance, was found in bathroom air ducts.

Italian court sentenced migrant who filmed himself sexually abusing a woman he had given drugs to and who later died of an overdose.

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.

A Florida police officer who overdosed after being accidentally exposed to fentanyl was saved by fellow officers who administered Narcan to her.

Three Afghan migrants have been convicted by a court for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a case that has shocked Austria.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Monday tweeted at 4:20 p.m. about the administration’s review to determine whether to reclassify marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug.

Law enforcement authorities in six different countries have joined forces to take down a “super cartel” of drugs traffickers.

A Renville County Sheriff’s Office K-9 made a huge impression his first day on the streets in Minnesota.

The legalization of recreational cannabis in the state of California has reportedly neither led to a downturn in illegal business nor has it relieved stress on law enforcement.

Amid record seizures, authorities in Belgium are now reportedly struggling to get rid of what has been described as a “mountain” of cocaine.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the likely next Speaker of the House, will visit the border on Tuesday to spotlight President Joe Biden’s failure to curb the inflow of terror suspects and fentanyl.

A suspect was killed during a shootout by an undercover NYPD officer during a drug sting Friday night around 8:45 p.m. 

The number of deaths caused by drugs in Finland has tripled since 2000 with drug deaths peaking in 2020.

German customs officials have seized 635 kilograms of cocaine among bananas shipped from Ecuador, authorities said Monday.

A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) worker admitted to embezzling mail packages that contained fentanyl and methamphetamine for thousands of dollars.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in a report on Tuesday that prices in Afghanistan for opium products “soared” in the past year and 32 percent more territory nationwide has been dedicated to cultivating the narcotic – statistics that reveal a booming industry under Taliban rule.

Production of coca crops and potential production of cocaine in Colombia reached its highest recorded levels in two decades in 2021, according to a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Integrated Illicit Crop Monitoring System (SIMCI) this month.