“This report will stir unjustified fear and confusion among American consumers who live in the country with the safest and most abundant food supply,” the CEO, Alexandra Dunn, of a trade group ...

The result was the 1986 single “American Storm”, a somewhat forgotten but quite powerful part of Seger’s stellar catalog that targets the c*caine epidemic.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In early 2023, Alex took a job at Cloud 9, a strip-mall smoke shop off ...

More children — over 192,000 — lost a father to drug overdose compared to the 129,000 who lost a mother. More than half of these bereaved kids had parents who died between the ages of 26 to 40 ...

Drug overdose was behind 112,000 deaths in 2023, with rates that remain way above pre-pandemic numbers.

Portugal cut drug deaths by 80%, using free health care and addiction treatment. The U.S., meanwhile, focused on drug busts and tough crime laws. Overdose deaths keep rising catastrophically.

in 1970, when this film was produced, heroin addiction was on the rise in the United States. Among the epidemic's causes that this documentary explores, the increased availability is perhaps the most ...

Other data reveals a more complicated picture than the reporting around declines in usage might suggest. A recent analysis of National Youth Tobacco Surveys, for example, found that by 2021, 10.3 ...

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Climate change will likely disrupt the illegal drug supply chain—making dangerous drugs even more variable and deadly. Soaring temperatures will make people more vulnerable to overdose.

Multiple drugs can be reported on one death certificate, and fentanyl is often found along with others, according to the CDC. “But it’s not the complete picture,” Cerdá said.