• Live updates: Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention Night 4

    Live updates: Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention Night 4

    Jul 18, 2024 05:18 PM EST

    ... is there for you.” Describing pain that was “unbearable,” Steve Wifcoff told of Trump’s outreach after the man’s son died of an opioid overdose. “That’s who he is,” Steven Witcoff said. ‘Could it be that Jesus Christ preserved him for a time such as this?’ The pastor ...

  • Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC

    Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC

    Jul 17, 2024 05:40 PM EST

    True. Drug overdose deaths have reached new highs during the Biden administration, a continuation of a trend that started under Barack Obama and continued under Trump. Fundner’s 15-year-old son, Weston, died from a fentanyl overdose in February 2022, she told the crowd. https://youtu.be/ITZRv-p4DLI ...

  • Live updates: After Trump makes entrance as official nominee, GOP convention begins second day

    Live updates: After Trump makes entrance as official nominee, GOP convention begins second day

    Jul 16, 2024 01:33 PM EST

    As part of the convention’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ session, family members of those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl overdose appeared back-to-back on the RNC stage to make the forceful and at time emotional case for why Trump would fix the epidemic. Michael Morin, the ...

  • Supreme Court blocks Purdue settlement in major blow to local governments fighting opioids

    Supreme Court blocks Purdue settlement in major blow to local governments fighting opioids

    Jun 27, 2024 10:53 PM EST

    ... Brian, it's worth underscoring here what you have reported on for a long time, that more than 300,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the year 2000. Just briefly remind us about the roles played by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family in the making of that ...

  • Supreme Court rejects nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

    Supreme Court rejects nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

    Jun 27, 2024 02:18 PM EST

    ... the Stamford, Connecticut-based company became synonymous with the crisis, even though the majority of pills being prescribed and used were generic drugs. Opioid-related overdose deaths have continued to climb, hitting 80,000 in recent years. Most of those are from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. The Purdue Pharma ...

  • Hunter Biden trial highlights experience of Americans struggling with addiction

    Hunter Biden trial highlights experience of Americans struggling with addiction

    Jun 12, 2024 10:40 PM EST

    ... the country. But to put this in context, we're still at a point where more than 100,000 Americans die every year of drug overdose. Teen overdoses -- I take care of teenagers in my clinic who struggle with addiction. Teen overdoses are at an all-time high and now ...

  • 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 ...