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A Bronx man is facing serious drug charges after police said they uncovered $7 million dollars worth of fentanyl and heroin concealed in a coffee table.

Fentanyl and heroin sold on the streets in Massachusetts continue to be cut with a sedative for animals, presenting an added danger to users, state drug monitors warned this month. Xylazine increases the risk of overdose, skin ulcers or death for people taking opioids cut with it, according to the Massachusetts Drug Supply Stream, a collaboration between the state Department…

The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses

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.