Heroin

This comes as overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.

Dámaso López-Serrano was said to have soured his relationship with El Chapo after fighting to seize control of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.

The opioid abuse crisis shouldn't be an excuse to stop those in chronic pain from being helped.

The 24-year-old teacher, Samantha Cox, is seen in the video acting strangely in an empty classroom early Wednesday morning.

The attorney general has long been an opponent of cannabis legalization.

The human race has grappled with addiction for a very long time.

In the year ending March 2017, more than 65,000 Americans died of drug overdose—more than than died in the Vietnam War.

The photo "displays exactly what heroin addiction is," she says.

These six new enforcement teams will be located in states across the U.S.

While drug traffickers and dealers once used fentanyl to spike the potency of the heroin they sold, they are now packaging fentanyl for sale by itself.

The name comes from a word meaning "heroic."

Street prices of cocaine and heroin have been falling for years, a good indication that plenty is still crossing our borders.

When the opioid crisis hit Indiana, Pence turned to Medicaid expansion to provide medical care, needle exchange and treatment.

Trump's impromptu drug summit could lead to rushed policy decisions with bad unintended consequences.

In a six months period in West Virginia, drug companies sold 235 opioid pills for every man, woman and child.

'This seizure alone contains enough potency to kill half of the population of New York City, if laboratory analysis proves it is all fentanyl,' special agent says.

Three overdoses and you're out, suggests a Middletown, Ohio, city councilman.

Many of the facts and statistics he cites are distorted, misguided, or flat out incorrect.

The main problem is illegal opioids such as heroin, illegal fentanyl, not legal drugs used illegally.

It's hard to imagine he doesn't understand the problem. He is, after all, a law school graduate.

Mixing the powerful drug fentanyl into heroin has become such a common practice among drug dealers that a slang term is now used for when a customer overdoses: "the fentanyl dance."

What is going to happen when people are prosecuted for manslaughter after calling 911?

Researchers say the new approach is ready for human trials.

The Homeland Security secretary says heroin, cocaine and meth are bigger problems.

Among white users, prescription opioids seem to be a gateway drug to heroin.

West Virginia has the nation's highest rate of opioid overdoses, according to the CDC.

Residents and elected officials from weed states would make lots of noise.

The report also confirms that white, middle-aged adults are being hit hardest by the opioid epidemic.

Despite fiery rhetoric, Trump's promises to get tough on drugs have only led to vague policy measures.

Voting to decriminalize weed is not an authoritarian action. It is a libertarian one.