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Three makeshift “crack pipe” vending machines have cropped up in Long Island on Monday, and authorities are investigating to find out how they got there.

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 couple was stopped by a West Virginia state trooper who allegedly confiscated their money without even charging them with a crime.

AFP — Two English amateur rugby players had taken heroin just before their deaths while in Sri Lanka, a court was told Friday as it ordered the arrest of those responsible for selling the narcotics. Concluding inquests into the deaths,

Population Research Institute President Steven Mosher, author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, discussed China’s role in the opioid epidemic on Breitbart News Sunday with SiriusXM host Amanda House.

The historic production of opium and its heroin derivative in Afghanistan — with a record output value of up to $6.6 billion last year, or nearly a third of the country’s entire gross domestic product — appears to provide better prospects for job security than any other industry in the nation.

23-year-old Anthony J. Clark of Oregon says he thought he was playing Grand Theft Auto while he was allegedly committing the game’s namesake crime.

Teacher and coach, 29-year-old Raquel Eleana Spencer, was behaving erratically at Northwest Whitfield High School where she was allegedly caught with heroin.

Villagers accused, then lynched 41-year-old Sebastian Woodroffe over the murder of Shipobo-Konibo healer and activist Olivia Arévalo.

Investigators say that transplants from victims of opioid overdose are as safe and effective as those who come from trauma death — and even those who die of natural causes.

The infamous “club drug” ketamine may provide the key to helping people living on the edge of self-destruction.

The unprecedented U.S.-led air campaign against the Taliban’s economic engine, opium and heroin, has destroyed 73 drug labs and deprived the narco-jihadist group of $42 million in proceeds since President Donald Trump authorized the operations in November.

A U.S. federal court has reportedly convicted two Afghan nationals this year in connection to a multi-million-dollar scheme to smuggle “tons” of Taliban-linked heroin from Afghanistan into the United States.

John Walters, head of the George W. Bush White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and COO of the conservative Hudson Institute, gave his thoughts on the opioid crises and President Donald Trump’s plan to tackle it on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions stood by President Donald Trump in Manchester, New Hampshire, Monday as the president announced his new strategy to tackle the opioid crisis, including seeking the death penalty for certain drug dealers.

A Nebraska man accused of filing a false police report found himself in more hot water after surveillance video caught him trying to stash cocaine in the interrogation room ceiling at the police station, authorities said.

Two Tennessee men have been accused of running a food stamp fraud scheme in which they traded food stamp benefits for cash and heroin.

Despite dire predictions of “crackdowns,” questions remain among legal experts as to just how significantly Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind an Eric Holder-era guidance on marijuana prosecutions will change patterns of prosecution.

Beijing denies playing a significant role in feeding the ongoing opioid crisis that has killed tens of thousands of Americans, repudiating the U.S. assertion that China is the top source of the synthetic opiate fentanyl that is fueling the unprecedented number of fatal drug overdoses in the United States.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions created a new “senior position” at the Department of Justice Wednesday, director of opioid enforcement and prevention efforts, to help combat what is now far and away the deadliest drug epidemic in American history.

U.S. and Afghan forces targeted Taliban drug labs for the first time on Sunday in the first significant use of new authorities under the Trump administration, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Monday.

In another extraordinary outburst, Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro accused Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos of drug-trafficking despite substantial evidence his regime sells huge quantities of narcotics itself.

An Ohio elementary school teacher, who allegedly let kids do acid inside her home, is facing multiple charges.

President Donald Trump’s administration has resuscitated the U.S.-backed efforts to combat the deadly opium crop and its heroin derivative in Afghanistan, triggering an increase in interdiction and eradication activity after counternarcotics operations nearly disappeared over the last few years.

President Donald Trump should declare a national emergency in response to the nearly 142 Americans killed each day by the opioid crisis gripping the United States, a bipartisan White House panel has found.

United States Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas announced Monday that a federal judge sentenced a Louisiana woman to six and a half years in prison for her role in a massive opioid “pill mill” ring.

Al-Arabiya reports that smugglers have “resorted to some desperate measures” to slip drugs and alcohol into Saudi Arabia.

Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro demanded an official, public apology from the United States Department of the Treasury after its announcement of a sanction on Vice President Tareck el Aissami, whom the Treasury accused of having known ties to a variety of terrorist and drug trafficking outfits.

The United States Department of Treasury has designated Venezuela’s vice president, Tareck el Aissami, a “Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker” for engaging in drug deals throughout the Western Hemisphere. Multiple reports in the past decade have tied El Aissami to groups as varied as the Mexican Zetas cartel and Hezbollah.

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has experienced a spike in heroin overdose cases in the past 32 hours.

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).

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would extend the war on drugs that won him the presidency in order to postpone anti-drug operations while the police conducted a “cleansing” of corrupt police abusing their authority.

Shiite Iran’s narco-jihadist proxy Hezbollah is operating a “virtually unopposed drug trafficking operation” in South America with links to the terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), reports the bipartisan House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.

China has agreed to invest 100 million yuan — more than $14 million — in new equipment for the Philippine police to be used in President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing campaign against drug crime.

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.