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Los Angeles County residents who want to get rid of expired, unused or unwanted drugs will have an opportunity this weekend to safely discard them at multiple locations during National Drug Take-Back Day.

Police in Portland, Oregon, are investigating nearly a dozen fentanyl overdoses involving children as young as 1 years old.

Researchers at Columbia University studied data from alcohol-related and substance-related hospital visits in New York State over 20 years.

The doping case involving teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva that marred the 2022 Beijing Olympics has returned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

A study has found that the psychedelic drug MDMA, combined with talk therapy, can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl.

Ecuador’s location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine.

The opioid overdose antidote Narcan will be available over the counter in the coming days, a move that’s hoped to increase access to the lifesaving medication amid the country’s worsening opioid epidemic.

Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients.

Customs authorities in Rotterdam have confiscated more than 17,600 pounds of cocaine, the largest seizure of the drug in the Netherlands.

Mexican marines found 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of dynamite hidden in a methamphetamine laboratory run by a drug cartel, the navy said Thursday.

Multiple officials involved in the White House cocaine inquiry now say the bag of powder was found in a cubby near the White House’s West Executive entrance, not the formal West Wing lobby as was previously reported.

Around 150 pounds of drugs have been found by boaters in the Florida Keys in the past week, authorities said.

A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis. It’s called xylazine (pronounced ZY’-lah-zeen).

The U.S. Army Specialist told police he started hallucinating and told his partner they needed to return to the campground. “This is the end,” he told her, court documents said.

A New Mexico Sonic employee has been arrested after allegedly losing his bag of cocaine while preparing a hot dog, police say. Authorities say 54-year-old Jeffrey David Salazar was arrested Tuesday in Española after a woman found a bag of white powder inside her order. The woman, identified as Celine Gonzales, told police she discovered the baggie after taking...

The U.S. has sanctioned more than a dozen people and businesses in China and Mexico that allegedly helped provide machines used to make counterfeit prescription drugs.

Peruvian authorities have previously reported finding cocaine in brick-shaped packages with various and strange symbols, but never with one of the flag of Nazi Germany.

South Carolina police pulled over two people from North Carolina only to discover that the woman, who appeared to be pregnant, was actually hiding more than three pounds of cocaine in a fake rubber belly.

Cejus Watson, an 11-year department veteran, has been suspended after allegedly selling marijuana at a Baltimore County tattoo parlor while on duty.