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The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses

“These two seizures are more than enough to provide a dose of meth for every man, women and child in the United States and Mexico,” said DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea.

Every time she got out of jail, Jamie Cline started hustling again for heroin, driven by an addiction she didn’t understand. “You want to get clean so bad. You know something’s killing you and you can’t stop,” said the 33-year-old who used heroin for 10 years.

A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California. Nine people who injected black tar heroin between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24 were hospitalized with severe myonecrosis, a soft-tissue infection…

A nonprofit’s proposal to open the nation’s first supervised injection site for opioid users in Philadelphia does not violate federal law, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail. The family’s lawyer said jail staff ignored her dire medical needs for days and then lied about it.

Federal officials have a new tool to battle the opioid crisis: data. The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program is using a web portal called the “OD Map” to track overdoses caused by opioids in real time. The program will help the agency target high-problem areas with resources and track the sources of...

Singer Demi Lovato was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after an apparent drug overdose. The former Disney star has been open about her struggles with addiction and recently celebrated six years of sobriety. However, in her latest song “Sober” Lovato admitted that she had relapsed.

A neighbor who called police on a man he believed was doing drugs in his truck said he saw the same man, who turned out to be a Border Patrol agent, doing drugs in the dumpster corral at his apartment complex.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested in Oceanside Sunday after police found heroin and an illegal firearm in his possession.

As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis.

Ninety-one people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related overdoses, but there’s a tool that can reverse the effects of an overdose that more and more law enforcement agencies and paramedics are now carrying with them as part of their standing operating protocol. It’s called Narcan, and here is what you need to know about what it is, how...

President Trump outlined the White House’s plans to curb the opioid epidemic, which he declared a nationwide public health emergency. Trump shared a personal anecdote about his late older brother, who told him to never start drinking.

A Pennsylvania man has been jailed on charges he sold heroin in the hospital maternity ward room where people were visiting his newborn daughter.

A former model who accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008 and had been arrested in San Diego on a heroin charge has posted bail, NBC 7 confirmed Wednesday.

Police in Akron, Ohio, are investigating the opioid overdose of a 1-year-old. A 9-year-old called 911 to report the emergency, police said, and the toddler was not breathing when officers arrived.

A new method for battling teenage opioid abuse comes not in the form of a new drug or counseling method, but in special “recovery schools” that emphasize communal support and positive peer pressure.

A dog was used as a drug mule for two New York men sending more than $1 million worth of heroin to John F. Kennedy Airport, the Queens District Attorney says.

The Drug Enforcement Agency in Phoenix, Arizona, is warning would-be users to stay away from new synthetic drug “Pink,” after it was linked to four recent deaths in Arizona. The DEA claims “Pink,” otherwise known as U-47700 or U-4, is seven times stronger than morphine and that just touching the drug is enough to have it enter in the bloodstream.