Drug overdose deaths
Seattle-Area Morgue Running Out of Space Due to Fentanyl Overdose Deaths
Seattle-area health officials recently admitted they are struggling to find space to store dead bodies in the morgue due to an increase in fentanyl overdose deaths.
Ethan Letkeman
Colorado Man Gets 40 Years Behind Bars After 5,800 Fentanyl Pills Seized: 'He Made a Profit Off Destroying Lives'
A 27-year-old man in Greeley, Colorado, will spend a long time in prison after dealing fentanyl, a drug that continues taking American lives.
2 Jan 2023, 10:02 AM PST
Migrant Who Drugged Woman To Death and Filmed Himself Raping Her Sentenced
Italian court sentenced migrant who filmed himself sexually abusing a woman he had given drugs to and who later died of an overdose.
21 Dec 2022, 2:30 AM PST
Afghans Convicted for Rape and Murder of Austrian 13-Year-Old Girl Leonie
Three Afghan migrants have been convicted by a court for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a case that has shocked Austria.
7 Dec 2022, 9:34 AM PST
Finland: Deaths Caused by Drugs Have Tripled Since 2000
The number of deaths caused by drugs in Finland has tripled since 2000 with drug deaths peaking in 2020.
11 Nov 2022, 8:37 AM PST
Watch: Democrat Tim Ryan Smirks While Being Called Out for Taking Money from Drug Companies Linked to Opioid Crisis
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) seemingly chuckled as Republican J.D. Vance called him out for taking campaign cash from drug corporations linked to the nation's deadly opioid crisis during the final debate ahead of the Ohio Senate election next month.
17 Oct 2022, 7:34 PM PST
PHOTO – CBP Seizes Pumpkins Filled with $402K Worth of Meth in Condoms: 'Not a Gourd Hiding Spot'
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Eagle Pass, Texas, recently found Halloween decorations filled with a large amount of methamphetamine.
15 Oct 2022, 11:23 AM PST
Democrat John Fetterman Refuses to Commit to Legislation to More Easily Lock Up Fentanyl Dealers
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Mehmet Oz (R) for the state's open United States Senate seat, is refusing to commit to supporting legislation that would make it easier for law enforcement to lock up dealers of illicit fentanyl.
J.D. Vance: 'Pharmaceutical Blood Money' Funding Tim Ryan's Senate Bid
Republican J.D. Vance says "pharmaceutical blood money" is fueling Rep. Tim Ryan's (D-OH) Senate campaign in Ohio.
Exclusive: Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup Issues Plan Declaring Fentanyl a WMD Against American Citizens
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) is leading an effort to declare illicit fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) being used against hundreds of thousands of American citizens, a plan exclusively shared with Breitbart News reveals.
6 Oct 2022, 4:18 PM PST
House Democrats Block Crackdown on Fentanyl as Over 100K Americans Die Every Year from Overdoses, Poisonings
Even as more than 100,000 Americans are dying from drug overdoses and poisonings every year, many linked to fentanyl, House Democrats have blocked a plan that would crack down on the deadly substance flowing almost exclusively from the United States-Mexico border into American communities.
29 Sep 2022, 2:46 PM PST
Blake Masters: Democrat Mark Kelly Should Attend Funerals of Teens Who Overdosed on Fentanyl
Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, declared that his opponent, Sen Mark Kelly (D-AZ), "should be forced to attend the funerals" of American teenagers who overdosed on fentanyl because "of his support for" the Biden administration's open borders policies.
5 Sep 2022, 1:19 PM PST
Democrat Tim Ryan Now Backs Classifying Fentanyl as WMD After Years Opposing Crackdowns
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is now backing a proposal to classify fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) as he runs for the United States Senate. The plan comes after years of Ryan's opposition to cracking down on fentanyl.
27 Jul 2022, 3:45 PM PST
Senate Doctors Release Fentanyl PSA: 'Deadliest Drug Nation Has Ever Seen'
U.S. Senators who are also doctors released a PSA about the fentanyl crisis on Friday, calling it the "deadliest drug our nation has ever seen."
15 Jul 2022, 11:27 AM PST
Fentanyl Deaths in American Border Communities Skyrocket by 800%
Fentanyl deaths in American communities 115 miles north of the United States-Mexico border have skyrocketed by 800 percent in recent years, officials reveal.
Flow of Fentanyl into American Communities Quadruples Under Biden
Four times as much fentanyl is flowing across the United States-Mexico border under President Joe Biden compared to two years prior when former President Trump was in office.
Exclusive–Meet the Father Fighting America's Fentanyl Crisis for His Slain Daughter: 'When Will Our Govt Take Action' Against China, Drug Cartels?
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Matt Capelouto never imagined he would be where he is today, on the front lines of a drug epidemic far deadlier than the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, the Chinese coronavirus, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Exclusive–Bill Hagerty at the Border: 'Carnage Happening in America' as Establishment Media Spotlight Ukraine
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) says that while the establishment media stay focused on the war in Ukraine, nearly 6,000 miles away, there is "carnage happening in America" as drug trafficking at the United States-Mexico border translates to more than 100,000 Americans dying every 12 months from drug overdoses.
3 Apr 2022, 1:51 PM PST
'Bodies Piling Up:' Morgue Opened in Baltimore Parking Garage to Deal with Autopsy Backlog
MDH converted a parking garage into a morgue to deal with a backlog of autopsies of people who have been murdered or have overdosed.
17 Feb 2022, 1:27 PM PST
CDC: Overdoses Hit Record 81,230; Accelerated During Coronavirus Pandemic
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that there were 81,230 drug overdose deaths in the year ending May 2020 — a new record, driven by fentanyl, with deaths accelerating during the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.
Overdoses Kill 621 in San Francisco Thus Far in 2020; Coronavirus Kills 173
Drug overdoses have killed 621 people in San Francisco this year, nearly four times as many as have been killed by COVID-19, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Poll: Most Americans Don't Blame Drug Companies for Opioid Crisis
A poll shows that the majority of Americans do not blame drug companies for the deaths of thousands of people from opioid overdoses.
Penny Starr
Drought Cripples Taliban's Record-High Opium Production Amid Peace Talks
Drought in Afghanistan last year decimated the cultivation and production of opium, but the deadly drug remains a threat to peace and security, the United Nations says in a report released Tuesday.
Edwin Mora
Beijing: U.S. 'Freedom,' Not Chinese Fentanyl, to Blame for U.S. Opioid Epidemic
U.S. law enforcement, intelligence, and military officials have determined that China is the primary source of the illegal use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl fueling the deadly drug overdose epidemic gripping the United States, but Beijing claimed this week that China has nothing to do with the crisis.
17 Feb 2019, 12:20 AM PST
Autopsy Confirms: Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Died of Drug Overdose
It has been confirmed through autopsy that Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the now-defunct video sharing platform Vine, died of an accidental drug overdose in December. Kroll reportedly has a mixture of drugs in his system including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.
Charlie Nash
6 Feb 2019, 10:16 AM PST
Feds: U.S.-Funded Afghan Security Chiefs 'Often Controlling' Opium Trafficking
More than a quarter of the opium poppies grown in Afghanistan last year came from districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a watchdog agency, reported Thursday.
1 Feb 2019, 3:24 PM PST
Hayward: Progressives See Opportunity in Opioid Disaster
It would be excessive to call the opioid crisis an orchestrated conspiracy, but it certainly does have aspects of a manufactured crisis: a problem created by politicians and then exploited by them to advance various agendas. Loose borders created the problem by allowing a tidal wave of deadly street drugs into the United States. Politicians are using the resulting crisis to attack the pharmaceutical industry and the criminal justice system. We could end up releasing an enormous number of criminals from prison because the drug epidemic put too many people in jail.
John Hayward
25 Aug 2018, 10:31 AM PST
U.S. Opioid Crisis Deadlier Than Global Terrorism in 2017, Say Feds
Drug overdoses, primarily driven by opioids like fentanyl and heroin, killed an unprecedented 72,287 people in the United States in 2017–proving to be more lethal than terrorist attacks across the world during the same period, a Breitbart News analysis of U.S. government data shows.
Trump to China, the Top Producer of Deadly Opiate Fentanyl: Cut Flow to U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump said his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping has agreed to assist the United States in combating the influx of the synthetic opioid fentanyl from China, the primary source of the drug.
State: FARC Peace Pact Fuels Increase in Cocaine Abuse, Fatal Overdoses in U.S.
The ongoing implementation of the peace pact between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has helped to render the country the world's top producer of cocaine again, fueling a historic number of overdose deaths in the United States, says the U.S. Department of State (DOS).
2 Aug 2017, 7:13 PM PST
White House on Opioids: U.S. 'Enduring a Death Toll Equal to' 9/11 'Every 3 Weeks'
President Donald Trump should declare a national emergency in response to the nearly 142 Americans killed each day by the opioid crisis gripping the United States, a bipartisan White House panel has found.
AG Sessions Talks Opioid Epidemic at DARE Conference
Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed the 30th DARE Training Conference in Dallas, Texas Tuesday, devoting much of his speech to the skyrocketing level of drug overdoses in America.
Ian Mason
Obama Releases Drug Traffickers from Prison, More Americans Die from Drug-Overdoses
The number of Americans dying by drug-overdose has reached a record high since 2009, while tens of thousands of convicted drug-traffickers are getting early releases from federal prisons. In 2014 alone, a total of 47,055 deaths – a rate of
Dr. Susan Berry