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  • Why regulators want to ban a key ingredient in kratom, a popular herbal supplement

    Why regulators want to ban a key ingredient in kratom, a popular herbal supplement

    Nov 09, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... opioids in the way that it interacts with our brains. And it may contribute to respiratory depression, which is ultimately what kills people when they overdose on opioids. So the Trump administration and some -- even some states like Florida have said, no more 7-OH, which is the street name ...

  • Trump has accused boat strike targets of being narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced, AP investigation finds

    Trump has accused boat strike targets of being narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced, AP investigation finds

    Nov 07, 2025 07:04 PM EST

    ... the U.S. is now in an “armed conflict” with them. Trump has said each sunken boat has saved 25,000 American lives, presumably from overdoses. The boats, however, appear to have been transporting cocaine, not the far more deadly synthetic opioids that kill tens of thousands of Americans each ...

  • U.S. strikes 8th and 9th alleged drug-carrying boats, this time in the Pacific, Hegseth says

    U.S. strikes 8th and 9th alleged drug-carrying boats, this time in the Pacific, Hegseth says

    Oct 22, 2025 07:49 PM EST

    ... strikes, Trump has repeatedly argued that illegal narcotics and the drug fentanyl carried by the vessels have been poisoning Americans. While the bulk of American overdose deaths are from fentanyl, the drug is transported by land from Mexico. Venezuela is a major drug transit zone, but the eastern Pacific Ocean ...

  • Fact-checking Trump's claim that each boat strike off Venezuela's coast saves 25,000 lives

    Fact-checking Trump's claim that each boat strike off Venezuela's coast saves 25,000 lives

    Oct 19, 2025 07:27 PM EST

    Generally, the politicians we have fact-checked referred to fentanyl seizures. The synthetic opioid is the leading cause of U.S. overdose deaths. Politicians’ statements about lives saved rely on the lethal dose for fentanyl — 2 milligrams. So if authorities seized 10 milligrams of fentanyl, for example, that saved five ...

  • 22 artists, scientists and authors selected for $800,000 MacArthur 'genius' grants

    22 artists, scientists and authors selected for $800,000 MacArthur 'genius' grants

    Oct 09, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    ... Chicago number, which then called again. It was the MacArthur Foundation. They were awarding him the fellowship in recognition of his work, which includes helping to start a testing program for street drugs to identify unregulated substances and helping to overcome a shortage of naloxone, which reverses an opioid overdose.

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

    Oct 06, 2025 07:44 PM EST

    ... him to blame himself when it didn’t work, leaving him ashamed and depressed. He died in 2009, after multiple suicide attempts and a drug overdose at age 20. “What happened in conversion therapy, it devastated Ryan’s bond with me and my husband," she said. “And it absolutely destroyed ...

  • Medicare, FEMA and air traffic control: How a government shutdown could impact public services

    Medicare, FEMA and air traffic control: How a government shutdown could impact public services

    Sep 30, 2025 08:33 PM EST

    ... will stop include research into health risks and ways to prevent illness, communications with the public, and work to help state and local officials prevent overdose deaths or other health problems, according to a federal planning document. NIH research would stall, with patients immediately affected Research and patient care at ...

  • Drug enforcement is rarely a focus of the U.N. General Assembly. This year is different

    Drug enforcement is rarely a focus of the U.N. General Assembly. This year is different

    Sep 25, 2025 10:14 PM EST

    ... politics at its biggest, so even as some components of the world body deal with drug enforcement, others emphasize public health programs — substance abuse treatment, overdose prevention and other services — over prohibition and punishments. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has advocated for decriminalizing at least ...

  • Republican Brad Raffensperger to run for Georgia governor after defying Trump over 2020 election

    Republican Brad Raffensperger to run for Georgia governor after defying Trump over 2020 election

    Sep 17, 2025 04:53 PM EST

    ... 2018 on a platform that emphasized managerial competence. During that race, one of his three sons, Brenton Raffensperger, died at age 27 from a fentanyl overdose. He spent most of his first two years in office battling lawsuits filed by Democrats that fruitlessly alleged Georgia, under then-Secretary of State ...

  • Hegseth visits Puerto Rico as U.S. steps up military operations in the Caribbean

    Hegseth visits Puerto Rico as U.S. steps up military operations in the Caribbean

    Sep 08, 2025 08:01 PM EST

    ... Nations and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, added that Venezuela “has absolutely nothing to do with the deaths of (U.S.) citizens from drug overdoses” as the country “is not relevant” in global drug production. She suggested the U.S. should focus on fighting consumption within its borders. “There ...

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