• Jury selected for Hunter Biden's federal gun trial in Delaware

    Jury selected for Hunter Biden's federal gun trial in Delaware

    Jun 03, 2024 10:45 PM EDT

    ... had family or friends who had struggled with addiction. There was one potential juror who said they had a friend who died of a heroin overdose. So this is -- some of the issues that are very much central to this case are things that people in the community know and ...

  • Top Sinaloa cartel assassin has been extradited to U.S. to face charges, DOJ says

    Top Sinaloa cartel assassin has been extradited to U.S. to face charges, DOJ says

    May 25, 2024 10:44 PM EDT

    ... to the U.S. WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking Fentanyl is blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States. “We allege El Nini was one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s lead sicarios, or assassins, and was ...

  • Louisiana Legislature approves bill classifying abortion pills as Schedule IV drugs

    Louisiana Legislature approves bill classifying abortion pills as Schedule IV drugs

    May 23, 2024 07:08 PM EDT

    ... Act restricts the use and distribution of prescription medications such as opioids, amphetamines, sleeping aids and other drugs that carry the risk of addiction and overdose. Abortion opponents and conservative Republicans both inside and outside the state have applauded the Louisiana bill. Conversely, the move has been strongly criticized by ...

  • News Wrap: Slovakia's prime minister shot in assassination attempt

    News Wrap: Slovakia's prime minister shot in assassination attempt

    May 15, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Wednesday, Slovakia's prime minister was shot multiple times today in an assassination attempt, the Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections this year using a House map with a second mostly-Black district, the number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell ...

  • Patrick Kennedy’s new book tells personal stories of mental health in America

    Patrick Kennedy’s new book tells personal stories of mental health in America

    May 05, 2024 09:30 PM EDT

    And we like finite, very linear descriptions. And for us as a nation, we know all the statistics are horrendous suicide going up, overdose going up. But what we don't have is a sense of what does this really mean like in real people's lives? How do they ...

  • Paul Auster, celebrated and experimental author, dies at 77

    Paul Auster, celebrated and experimental author, dies at 77

    May 01, 2024 04:55 PM EDT

    ... had a son, Daniel, from an earlier marriage to the author-translator Lydia Davis. Daniel Auster would struggle with drug addiction and die of an overdose in 2022, shortly after being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of his infant daughter, Ruby. Paul Auster never commented publicly on ...

  • Supreme Court hears case on whether cities can criminalize homelessness, disband camps

    Supreme Court hears case on whether cities can criminalize homelessness, disband camps

    Apr 22, 2024 10:40 PM EDT

    ... City of Grants Pass, Oregon: In Grants Pass, in a tent on the little league field, a dead body was found, believed to be an overdose. This is a very real crisis. And people are dying on our streets. We think it's safer and better for people to avoid ...

  • Recovery community helping Kentucky town rebound from economic decline and addiction

    Recovery community helping Kentucky town rebound from economic decline and addiction

    Apr 19, 2024 10:30 PM EDT

    Sam Quinones: I knew of Hazard, Kentucky only, as a place of terrible devastation due to the opioid epidemic. Jeffrey Brown : More than 100,000 Americans are still dying every year from drug overdose, fueled largely by the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It's a problem that continues to plague towns ...

  • News Wrap: First 7 jurors chosen to serve in Trump's criminal hush money trial

    News Wrap: First 7 jurors chosen to serve in Trump's criminal hush money trial

    Apr 16, 2024 10:51 PM EDT

    ... chaos and devastation that has resulted from this epidemic. And, yes, that means more dead Americans. Geoff Bennett: Fentanyl is a leading cause of drug overdoses in the U.S., killing an average of 200 Americans each day. Federal regulators issued new protections today for coal miners against so-called ...

  • House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the U.S.

    House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the U.S.

    Apr 16, 2024 08:49 PM EDT

    ... The report’s findings were released Tuesday as part of a hearing examining China’s role in the fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. Most overdose deaths in the U.S. continue to be linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Inexpensive fentanyl is increasingly cut into other drugs, often ...