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Despite the polarized times we live in, this much has become increasingly hard to deny: there are the official Biden administration talking points, and then there is reality.

Biden nominee for associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta, owns between $11 million and $55 million of stock in her father’s company that sold acetic anhydride to Mexican cartels, which is used to make “high-grade ‘china white’ heroin and methamphetamine,” according to reports.

Columbia University professor Carl Hart says that he uses heroin regularly as part of his “work-life balance.” The professor added that he first tried heroin six or seven years ago, and that at the time, he was already a tenured professor who was “well over” 40 years old.

The rising rates of suicides, drug overdoses, and other “Deaths of Despair” are spreading from blue-collar white Americans to the broader group of Americans who hold lower-wage college degrees, says Angus Deaton, one of two professors who detected the post-2000 epidemic.

Donald Trump’s border security policies helped reduce deaths from opioid overdoses in 2018 relative to 2017, said Dr. Nicole Saphier.

Federal authorities say that the health record software company Practice Fusion was paid by a major opioid manufacturer to promote the prescription of opioids to doctors who were attempting to view patients’ electronic records.

BOSTON (AP) — John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, got 5 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating an opioid scheme.

Major League Baseball has pulled marijuana form the list of banned substances for minor league players, a report says.

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

Appearing Tuesday on The Hill’s Rising, Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he would establish safe opioid injection sites across the United States in an effort to prevent drug users from overdosing.

First Lady Melania Trump was met with boos from Baltimore high school students ahead of her planned speech addressing the nation’s opioid crisis on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is donating his third-quarter salary to help tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has unveiled a website aimed at helping millions of Americans with substance abuse issues learn about and locate treatment options.

A poll shows that the majority of Americans do not blame drug companies for the deaths of thousands of people from opioid overdoses.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation’s three largest drug distributors and a drugmaker have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit related to the nation’s opioid crisis.

The enduring children’s show “Sesame Street” is tackling the opioid crisis with a character whose mother is struggling with an addiction.

A Virginia doctor is facing up to life in prison for prescribing half a million doses of highly addictive opioids over the past two years.

The ancient Chinese military leader Sun Tzu understood that the best military strategy was to win without fighting. Impossible? The modern-day Chinese have mastered Sun Tzu’s tactics with an unarmed assault on the United States.

An illegal alien has been sentenced to a little more than six years in prison for planning to distribute enough fentanyl to kill half a million Americans, federal officials confirm.

Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced a crackdown on the “Chinese drug kingpins fueling America’s deadly opioid crisis.” The individuals and organizations designated for Treasury action deal in powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil, which are often mixed into other street drugs without the knowledge of customers, resulting in countless deaths by overdose.

China’s Communist Party is “very happy to kill tens of thousands of Americans each year” with its fentanyl exports, knowing of overdoses related to the opiate’s abuse, said Gordon Chang

Diverting border security resources to address the “humanitarian need” of migrants is leading to record-high levels of illicit drug smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border, said James W. Carroll, director of the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths finally stopped climbing last year. And they apparently fell a little — the first such decline in nearly three decades.

The Rochester Drug Co-operative and its former CEO Laurence Doud III were charged on Tuesday with conspiring to defraud the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — and the rest of the country.

Federal prosecutors charged 60 physicians and pharmacists from Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Alabama on Wednesday for illegally dealing opioids.

Eric Bolling told Breitbart News that he “hates being the face” of a series of town hall events examining opioid abuse, but is “saving lives.”

President Trump already has significant achievements on health care that can be summarized as follows: more choice, lower prices, life-saving drugs.

Authorities arrested an 18-year-old mother in Oklahoma after her nine-month-old tested positive for opioids at a local hospital, police said.

First Lady Melania Trump charged the media to boost coverage of lives lost and that could be saved from the opioid crisis to at least the level devoted to “idle gossip” and “trivial stories.”

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) stressed to Breitbart News this week that commensurate with U.S. seizures, a small amount of heroin entering the United States from Afghanistan, the world’s top producer of the drug, is having a “limited impact” on the nation’s opioid crisis.

A Kentucky woman, who tried to smuggle nearly 2,000 fentanyl pills into the United States from Mexico in her underwear and vagina, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges this week in South Texas.

San Francisco has more intravenous drug users than high school students, according to a San Francisco news outlet. “Injection drug users” outweigh high schoolers by more than 50 percent according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) called out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for opposing a wall along the United States-Mexico border while she enjoys security and a fence around her home.

Terrorists could potentially use fentanyl – a synthetic opioid is mainly produced in China that is the primary source behind the fatal overdose epidemic in the United States – as a “weapon of mass destruction,” Bloomberg News recently reported, citing experts and echoing other articles.

First lady Melania Trump spread Christmas cheer and service throughout the month of December–from White House decorations to serving children and military service members.