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  • Fact-checking key moments in Bondi's tenure as Trump's attorney general

    Fact-checking key moments in Bondi's tenure as Trump's attorney general

    Apr 03, 2026 09:37 PM EDT

    ... from opioid overdoses each year is in the tens of thousands. Drug experts say 119 million people in the U.S. do not consume fentanyl or illicit drugs that may be laced with fentanyl; people who do not consume illicit drugs are not at risk of dying of an overdose.

  • U.S. military kills 6 in another strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific

    U.S. military kills 6 in another strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific

    Mar 09, 2026 04:36 PM EDT

    ... Middle East. Critics have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes as well as their effectiveness, in part because the fentanyl behind many fatal overdoses is typically trafficked to the U.S. over land from Mexico, where it is produced with chemicals imported from China and India.The boat ...

  • WATCH: RFK Jr. and others launch new addiction and homelessness initiative

    WATCH: RFK Jr. and others launch new addiction and homelessness initiative

    Feb 02, 2026 09:09 PM EDT

    ... that strengthen the mental health and substance use treatment system and provide greater support for providers on the ground,” he said.Federal data shows that overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Still, that decline was ...

  • Fact-checking Trump’s marathon press briefing at one-year mark of his second term

    Fact-checking Trump’s marathon press briefing at one-year mark of his second term

    Jan 20, 2026 11:59 PM EDT

    ... more than 2 million jobs overall, compared with 473,000 in 2025 under Trump. Trump said 300,000 people died last year because of fentanyl overdoses, but that’s far above the most recent federal data. In the 12 months before August 2025, about 69,000 people in the U ...

  • WATCH: Trump attends ceremony in Florida renaming Southern Boulevard in his honor

    WATCH: Trump attends ceremony in Florida renaming Southern Boulevard in his honor

    Jan 16, 2026 11:14 PM EDT

    ... Trump because he feels the president has been a champion for combating the scourge of fentanyl, a personal issue for McDowell after his brother’s overdose death. But he also cited Trump’s efforts to strike peace deals all over the world and called him “one of the most consequential ...

  • Inside the real Pittsburgh hospital behind HBO's 'The Pitt'

    Inside the real Pittsburgh hospital behind HBO's 'The Pitt'

    Jan 08, 2026 11:20 PM EDT

    ... name? Dr. Christopher Morris: A car pulled up into the front of the hospital and it was a female that was unresponsive, presumably from an overdose. And Fiona said she was going to check the pupils, so she wanted me to show her how to do that. Fiona Dourif: Pupils ...

  • Fact-checking Trump's claims after U.S. strike on Venezuela and capture of Maduro

    Fact-checking Trump's claims after U.S. strike on Venezuela and capture of Maduro

    Jan 04, 2026 06:46 PM EDT

    ... know how many lethal doses of the drugs could have been destroyed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 73,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths from May 2024 to April 2025. That means the drugs on 32 boats would have been responsible for 800,000 deaths, nearly 11 ...

  • Judge formally approves opioid settlement for Purdue Pharma and Sackler family members who own the company

    Judge formally approves opioid settlement for Purdue Pharma and Sackler family members who own the company

    Nov 18, 2025 04:15 PM EDT

    ... opioid crisis that has been linked to 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999. WATCH: What’s behind the significant drop in opioid overdose deaths A portion of the money is to be distributed next year to some people who had OxyContin prescriptions and their survivors. "My heart ...

  • Judge says he'll approve opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and Sackler family

    Judge says he'll approve opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and Sackler family

    Nov 14, 2025 07:10 PM EDT

    ... litigation.” Most of the money is to go to state and local governments to be used in their efforts to mitigate damage of the opioid epidemic. Overdose death numbers have been dropping in the past few years, a decline experts believe is partly due to the impact of settlement dollars.

  • 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...

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