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The first recreational pot market in the U.S. notched another marijuana first Thursday when Colorado started using marijuana taxes to fund police efforts to crack down on illegal growing operations.
Read More →The US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals must remove its powerful opioid painkiller Opana ER from the market due to "the public health consequences of abuse."
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A Tennessee woman is facing drug-related charges after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy found a small bag of cocaine in his drink at a Tennessee Steak ‘n Shake restaurant, according to multiple reports.
Read More →An SUV with a child in the back seat nearly flipped over a steep hillside in Carrick, PA, on Monday afternoon when the driver and his passenger overdosed on suspected heroin while driving, according to police.
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Deputies estimate that the plants found near Claremont are worth a half-billion dollars. They said some of the plants had been cut to allow collection of the opium resin.
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Deputies estimate that the plants found near Claremont are worth a half-billion dollars. They said some of the plants had been cut to allow collection of the opium resin.
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An East Liverpool, OH, Police officer, while responding to a drug-involved call Friday night, accidentally touched fentanyl and overdosed.
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An East Liverpool, OH, Police officer, while responding to a drug-involved call Friday night, accidentally touched fentanyl and overdosed.
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For the first time, Baltimore police have begun investigating overdoses in an effort to trace drugs back to dealers, joining a wave of Maryland law enforcement agencies showing up at 911 calls previously left to medics.
Read More →Forty-three percent of drivers tested in fatal crashes in 2015 had used a legal or illegal drug, eclipsing the 37 percent who tested above the legal limit for alcohol, according to a report released Wednesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility.
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