Injury deaths involving drug use rose from just under 20% to nearly 31% over the five-year period, researchers found. About ...

At the start of September 2025, US president Donald Trump sent a naval task force into the Caribbean to tackle drug trafficking in the region. The initiative has led to strikes on four alleged drug ...

Drug-related death rates from unintentional injury rose from 19.5% to 30.8% in the five-year period analyzed. Death rates increased significantly for adults in the 35 to 44 age group. Of all deaths ...

President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged ...

President Donald Trump has determined that the United States is in now engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...

The history of drug use in America is not necessarily a story of opium dens and crack houses. It’s a story of substances that weren’t illegal until they were abused. Patent medicines might be ...

Ever since Portugal enacted drug decriminalization in 2001, reformers have argued that North America should follow suit. The Portuguese saw precipitous declines in overdoses and blood-borne infections ...

America is facing a growing crisis in its medical system — not from a lack of talent or innovation, but from a breakdown in the control, safety and supply of essential medicines. Our growing reliance ...

At an addiction conference in Nashville, Tenn., in late April, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spoke about his own experience with drug use. “Addiction is a source ...

Sir Richard Branson has never sat on an idea. A frenetic 40-year career in the public eye has seen him launch Virgin Group, with its 400 companies, while juggling time between world record attempts, ...