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As part of an NBC News series, One Nation Overdosed, eight different victims and their families share their stories.

The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on eight members of the notorious Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel.

The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Zulma Maria Musso Torres, aka ‘La Patrona,’ the woman in charge of a drug trafficking empire based in Colombia.

Moderna is developing a single-dose vaccine that combines the company’s Covid vaccine and a flu booster.

Europe’s so-called “city of sin” has not been the same since the Covid-19 pandemic struck and coffeeshops, popular with tourists, have been hit.

The Boston Bengals Pop Warner program is seriously considering shutting down after a series of incidents involving violent homeless people and dangerously close encounters with discarded hypodermic needles and other drug paraphernalia at the Boston park where the football teams practice. Used drug needles, crack pipes and human feces are just a few of the things routinely scattered throughout Clifford…

Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending plan calls for reducing Medicare drug costs, which may involve letting the government negotiate pharmaceutical prices.

A Pennsylvania produce importer has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly smuggling cocaine in boxes of hot peppers. Humberto Baez, 52, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison after being convicted back in 2019 by a jury for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine. The DEA said its investigation found that Baez used…

Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that she’s hopeful that the spike in drug overdoses will not be lasting. 

An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver on a man who attempted to swallow a bag of marijuana after he was pulled over for speeding.

Four people, including a mother and her son, have been arrested in connection with an alleged North Shore drug ring that flooded communities with fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Nathaniel Mendell announced Wednesday. Mendell said federal agents on Wednesday arrested Vincent Caruso and three associates for flooding communities in the North Shore and as far away as Maine...

The German biotech’s initial public offering was priced Thursday night at $15 per share, the high end of the expected range.

Since 1971, America has spent over a trillion dollars enforcing its drug policies.

Police say a man is targeting kids with meth that’s designed to look like the pharmaceutical drug Adderall.

Biogen Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm is the first new treatment for dementia approved by the FDA in decades, and it’s started a war over the brain drug pipeline.

An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

With recreational cannabis legal in more states, the on-demand delivery wars could be headed for marijuana dispensaries.

“Shark Tank” co-host Kevin O’Leary has multiple psychedelic drug company investments citing “incredible potential” compared to recreational cannabis.

Stigmatized drugs like psychedelic mushrooms and MDMA are key to a new era of mental illness treatment for conditions like depression and PTSD.

Medina Spirit’s trainer Bob Baffert will be immediately suspended from entering any horses in races at Churchill Downs track, Churchill Downs said.