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The death of a 14-year-old autistic boy found malnourished and with fentanyl in his system in his father’s squalid home last October was the result of a “multi-system failure” made worse by the pandemic, according to an investigation by the Massachusetts Office of the Child Advocate released Wednesday. The report in the death of David Almond said Fall River...

Massachusetts officials are investigating the death of a 14-year-old with autism who was living along with one of his brothers in what they say were horrid conditions at a Fall River apartment that showed signs of rampant drug use. The boys’ father, 33-year-old John Almond, is facing neglect charges in connection with the surviving brother who was at the home,…

“These two seizures are more than enough to provide a dose of meth for every man, women and child in the United States and Mexico,” said DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea.

Every time she got out of jail, Jamie Cline started hustling again for heroin, driven by an addiction she didn’t understand. “You want to get clean so bad. You know something’s killing you and you can’t stop,” said the 33-year-old who used heroin for 10 years.

A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California. Nine people who injected black tar heroin between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24 were hospitalized with severe myonecrosis, a soft-tissue infection…

Two men arrested for alleged drug trafficking were also found with thousands of dollars in cash and a ‘large machete’ at a traffic stop in Milton, according to authorities. More than $16,000 was discovered in the vehicle, along with 56 grams of a substance believed to be heroin, Massachusetts State Police said.

Federal prosecutors say seven people have been indicted for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to ship drugs from California to Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The U.S. attorney’s office in Rhode Island says more than 200 packages containing “significant quantities” of heroin and cocaine were shipped from the Los Angeles area to dozens of rented commercial mailboxes in greater Providence...

A nonprofit’s proposal to open the nation’s first supervised injection site for opioid users in Philadelphia does not violate federal law, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Federal authorities say a weekslong investigation into drug trafficking in Massachusetts has led to about 50 arrests and the seizure of large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said in a statement Monday the 10-week operation code named Devil’s Highway was a coordinated effort by federal, state, and local partners to focus on drug...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

An artist has moved his giant sculpture of a burnt spoon to a Rhode Island drugmaker’s office to protest the opioid crisis. The Providence Journal reports that 48-year-old Domenic Esposito, of Westwood, Massachusetts, and a partner placed the nearly 11-foot-long, 800-pound (3-meter-long, 360-kilogram) spoon at the front gates of Rhodes Pharmaceuticals in Coventry on Thursday.

Two people have been arrested after authorities found drugs, cash and drug manufacturing equipment in a hotel room in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

A Framingham, Massachusetts man who hid crack cocaine in his buttocks was arrested for distributing drugs, according to police. The MetroWest Drug Task Force entered the home of 41-year-old Anthony Bapitiste on Wednesday after receiving tips that he was selling cocaine and heroin.

A New Hampshire man is recovering after getting hit by a car allegedly driven by a man who passed out from a heroin overdose in Manchester on Thursday afternoon. Police arrested Matthew Pike, 24, of Northfield, shortly after the crash on Bedford Street and after first responders treated him with Narcan.

A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail. The family’s lawyer said jail staff ignored her dire medical needs for days and then lied about it.

Federal officials have a new tool to battle the opioid crisis: data. The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program is using a web portal called the “OD Map” to track overdoses caused by opioids in real time. The program will help the agency target high-problem areas with resources and track the sources of...

Singer Demi Lovato was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after an apparent drug overdose. The former Disney star has been open about her struggles with addiction and recently celebrated six years of sobriety. However, in her latest song “Sober” Lovato admitted that she had relapsed.

As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis.

Ninety-one people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related overdoses, but there’s a tool that can reverse the effects of an overdose that more and more law enforcement agencies and paramedics are now carrying with them as part of their standing operating protocol. It’s called Narcan, and here is what you need to know about what it is, how...

President Trump outlined the White House’s plans to curb the opioid epidemic, which he declared a nationwide public health emergency. Trump shared a personal anecdote about his late older brother, who told him to never start drinking.