• WATCH: State Department holds news briefing as Ukraine asks for jets, ammunition

    WATCH: State Department holds news briefing as Ukraine asks for jets, ammunition

    Feb 15, 2023 07:01 PM EDT

    ... don't have the resources to deal with the ramifications of migrants crossing into the U.S. at the southern border, a rise in drug overdoses caused by fentanyl and other lab-produced synthetic opioids, and a homelessness crisis in his state. Biden has repeatedly stated that the United States ...

  • Support for Ukraine aid softens in U.S. public, poll says

    Support for Ukraine aid softens in U.S. public, poll says

    Feb 15, 2023 05:47 PM EDT

    ... don't have the resources to deal with the ramifications of migrants crossing into the U.S. at the southern border, a rise in drug overdoses caused by fentanyl and other lab-produced synthetic opioids, and a homelessness crisis in his state. WATCH: Western nations accelerate air defense to Ukraine ...

  • What's behind a sharp rise in deaths among pregnant women and new mothers?

    What's behind a sharp rise in deaths among pregnant women and new mothers?

    Feb 13, 2023 11:20 PM EDT

    ... itself, Native women five times as likely to die in car accidents during or after the pregnancy, three times as likely to die of drug overdoses or homicide, four times as likely to die by suicide. In your role trying to support these women, where do you even begin? How ...

  • Read Biden's full 2023 State of the Union remarks

    Read Biden's full 2023 State of the Union remarks

    Feb 08, 2023 02:16 PM EDT

    ... Jill and me a letter about his daughter Courtney. Contagious laugh. Her sister’s best friend. He shared a story all too familiar to millions of Americans. Courtney discovered pills in high school. It spiraled into addiction and eventually her death from a fentanyl overdose. She was 20 years old.

  • Drug trafficking trial begins for Mexico’s former top security official in charge of fighting cartels

    Drug trafficking trial begins for Mexico’s former top security official in charge of fighting cartels

    Jan 17, 2023 08:29 PM EDT

    The trial begins just days after U.S. President Joe Biden met with López Obrador in Mexico City. The two governments pledged continued cooperation against the drug cartels, especially against the scourge of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which contributed to more than 107,000 drug overdose deaths in the U ...

  • 988 mental health line receives over 2 million calls and texts in 6 months

    988 mental health line receives over 2 million calls and texts in 6 months

    Jan 10, 2023 10:16 PM EDT

    It couldn’t have come at a more needed time: Depression rates in U.S. adults, overdose deaths and suicide rates have been on the rise. “The call volume is, in some instances, well beyond what we anticipated,” said Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, assistant secretary for mental health and substance use ...

  • Biden announces plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border

    Biden announces plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border

    Jan 05, 2023 01:38 AM EDT

    And fentanyl and other lab-produced synthetic opioids now are driving an overdose crisis deadlier than any the U.S. has ever seen. But drug control advocates and experts say an anti-drug policy that relies on tighter border security is dangerous and likely futile. It's too easy to ...

  • A look at the big issues that inspired new state laws taking effect in 2023

    A look at the big issues that inspired new state laws taking effect in 2023

    Jan 02, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    The drug overdose crisis, the loneliness crisis in America, and more and more legislators are trying to figure out how to tackle what is the mammoth challenge of the next decade, how to build more facilities, how to get more people spotting those who might have mental health problems, whether ...

  • Years into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to understand long COVID

    Years into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to understand long COVID

    Dec 26, 2022 11:12 PM EDT

    ... Journal of the American Medical Association. Figuring out who’s at risk for years-long symptoms “is such a complicated question," said Dr. Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University. WATCH: U.S. life expectancy falls to lowest level since mid-1990s due to COVID and drug overdoses

  • December 22, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    December 22, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Dec 23, 2022 12:49 AM EDT

    Thursday on the NewsHour, United States life expectancy falls to the lowest level since the mid-1990s due to deaths from COVID and drug overdoses. Congress irons out the details of a massive spending bill in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown. Plus, despite the pandemic and online shopping causing ...