North Carolina police rescued 358 injured or neglected animals after discovering roughly a half-billion dollars worth of opium poppy plants on a Catawba County property earlier this week.
Fatalities from the ongoing opioid epidemic gripping the United States are fueling “personnel shortages” and equipment failures within America’s “death investigation system,” a forensic doctor told lawmakers Thursday.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgarian customs agents have seized some 423 kilograms (933 pounds) of heroin worth an estimated $34 million at a border checkpoint with Romania. Customs chief Georgi Kostov said Sunday the drugs were in a truck stopped
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concluded a targeted nationwide gang operation which was the largest ever conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Officers noticed something suspicious about a 47-year-old woman from Nogales, Arizona, as she attempted to enter the U.S. through the pedestrian border lines. Upon further inspection, officers discovered nearly 3 pounds of heroin strapped to her buttocks, worth an estimated $45,000.
Pennsylvania State Police raided the home of Kerri Malloy on Wednesday after postal workers notified them of a delivered package that contained carfentanil, CBS Pittsburgh reported.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) alleges that it captured the opium-rich Chaprahr district in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province from the Taliban, following clashes between the two groups that left dozens dead, including a nine-year-old girl.
The American government placed a revised version of the U.S. counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan “on hold for more than two years” while cultivation and production of opium and its deadly heroin derivative has reached historic levels in the war-ravaged nation, reports a watchdog agency.
A Mexican national was busted attempting to smuggle highly lethal narcotics into the United States.
The United States had the ability to use aerial spraying to destroy the opium crops in Afghanistan used by the Taliban to fund their terrorist activities after 9/11 but refused to do so out of concern that the plants “might be too close to a mosque,” declared Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) during a congressional hearing.
The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is likely involved in the lucrative trade of opium and its deadly heroin derivative despite its claims to the contrary, experts tell Breitbart News.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has largely blamed Latin American drug cartels for the unprecedented 52,000-plus drug overdose deaths in America during 2015 alone, the latest year for which data is available.
The “nexus” between Latin American drug cartels and Islamic terrorist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram, which controls Africa-based smuggling routes towards Europe, “is real” and expected to “get more sophisticated,” declared U.S. Department of Defense Secretary John Kelly.
Authorities arrested an alleged member of the notoriously violent MS-13 street gang after receiving a tip from the public.
The U.S. military, perhaps inadvertently, may have eradicated opium poppy crops when it dropped the “mother of all bombs” on Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in the Achin district of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.
Federal authorities dismantled a large drug trafficking organization alleged of importing narcotics from Mexico through the southern border.
Amid the epidemic of heroin and opioid overdoses ravaging American communities California Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-13) is proposing taxpayer-funded medical oversight of heroin addicts to be sure they do not inject too much of the drug when taking it.
Here is some promising news about the nation’s much-ignored drug disaster: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will head up a national task force to combat the deadly opioid epidemic.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge says Congress must pass a pending bill to close the shipping loophole allowing Chinese companies to sell lethal opioids to distributors in U.S. neighborhoods.
Federal law enforcement authorities busted a trio allegedly involved in a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization moving large quantities of heroin from Texas to New York. Officers seized more than $4.1 million in cash and three kilos of heroin.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared war against rising violent crime and directed federal prosecutors to begin targeting major criminals and use every tool at their disposal to remove them from communities.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is plagued by financial troubles, with annual revenue falling by over 50 percent over the last two years, a study finds.
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has experienced a spike in heroin overdose cases in the past 32 hours.
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.
The government of Myanmar arrested a Buddhist monk on Tuesday for hiding over four million methamphetamine pills and a cache of “a grenade and ammunition” in his monastery. The incident highlights one of the world’s most sprawling drug epidemics in a nation former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has regaled as an Obama White House success story.
A man convicted on drug trafficking charges is back in federal court after former president Barack Obama commuted his life sentence.
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.
An estimated 300 Marines are reportedly gearing up to deploy to the Taliban stronghold and top opium-producing province of Helmand, Afghanistan, as part of a task force expected to train members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).
Efforts to eradicate opium in Afghanistan dropped by nearly 90 percent last year as the cultivation of the illicit drug, which as heroin provides an estimated 60 percent of Taliban funding, reached unprecedented levels.
A grim government report shows more than 500,000 people died from drug overdoses in only 15 years, and confirms that “the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening.”
Officials in Seattle approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for illegal drug users Friday. The sites offer illegal drug users clean needles, medical supervision, and quick access to drugs that reverse the effects of an overdose, the Washington Post reported.
Scores, possibly hundreds of hypodermic needles have washed up on a southern California beach after weekend rains flowed down the Santa Ana river.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) found deaths from opioid and prescription drug overdoses hit 33,091 in 2015.
A Mexican national has been sentenced to 10 years for trafficking heroin into the country following an investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Only an estimated one percent of the heroin seized by law enforcement in the United States originates from the Southwest Asia region that includes Afghanistan, the top producer of opium and heroin in the world, reports the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in its latest National Drug Threat Assessment.
The CDC reports the number of heroin deaths was 12,989 and the number of firearm-related homicides was 12,979.
An alleged drug trafficker was indicted on five counts for possessing nearly 80 pounds of cocaine and illegal possession of firearms, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio announced.
Outgoing President Obama has shortened the prison sentences of another 79 drug traffickers, many of whom were also convicted on weapons charges or had prior drug convictions.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The number of newborn babies who have been exposed to drugs and alcohol in Louisiana has tripled since 2008, mostly due to the massive rise and popularity of heroin being trafficked into the state through the U.S. southern border.
A judge in Ohio showed favor to a husband convicted of using a baseball bat to beat a man who sold heroin to his wife. Instead of jail time, the convicted husband was given probation.
