• 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 ...

  • Woman known as 'Ketamine Queen' pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry

    Woman known as 'Ketamine Queen' pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry

    Sep 03, 2025 10:51 PM EST

    ... horrible and she’s felt horrible since day one.” Sangha admitted to selling drugs directly to 33-year-old Cody McLaury, who died from an overdose in 2019. McLaury had no connection to Perry. Prosecutors agreed to drop three other counts. Geragos, whose other clients have included Michael Jackson, Chris ...

  • Woman agrees to plead guilty to selling fatal dose of ketamine to Matthew Perry

    Woman agrees to plead guilty to selling fatal dose of ketamine to Matthew Perry

    Aug 18, 2025 09:34 PM EST

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the “Friends” star to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors ...

  • Funding freeze could set research back years, Harvard scientists say

    Funding freeze could set research back years, Harvard scientists say

    Aug 07, 2025 04:36 PM EST

    ... from the Trump administration was necessary. Bertha Madras, a Harvard psychobiologist who lost funding to create a free, parent-focused training to prevent teen opioid overdose and drug use, said she’s happy to see the culling of what she called “politically motivated social science studies.” White House pressure a ...

  • Studies reveal hidden deaths and health problems connected to Maui and LA wildfires

    Studies reveal hidden deaths and health problems connected to Maui and LA wildfires

    Aug 06, 2025 07:04 PM EST

    ... calculated rates of suicide and overdose deaths in Maui and Hawaii's four other counties. That research team found a 97% increase in suicides and overdose death rates on Maui during the month of the wildfires. The total number of suicide and overdose deaths was 13 that month — most of ...