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The entrance of a “narcotics tunnel” was found at a home in Tijuana and was used to discretely cross the U.S.-Mexico border to carry out acts of organized crimes and other illicit activities, authorities in Mexico said.

Multiple drug take back events were held in Connecticut on Saturday.

The Office of the Stafford County Sheriff said that three one year olds were taken to the emergency room after their parents observed “lethargic and uncoordinated behavior, as well as glassy, bloodshot eyes.”

Investor optimism over the possibility of federal cannabis legalization has contributed to a strong rally in beaten-down pot stocks.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla appeared on CNBC exactly two years after Covid was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020.

The Russian Federal Customs Service said they have detained WNBA star Brittney Griner after finding vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow

U.S. government officials said synthetic opioids are akin to “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”

Police and health experts are trying to spread the word on how dangerous fentanyl is and hope parents will talk to their kids about those dangers.

Hartford Police Sergeant Chris Mastroianni has been giving presentations to parents, teachers, school nurses, and principals to educate them about the dangers of fentanyl after a 13-year-old student overdosed at school and later died. Fentanyl is often packaged in very small bags, similar to the size of a gum wrapper. It costs $2 to $3 per bag, but most are sold…

Florida authorities said they found cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped around a man’s penis during a traffic stop, but the man denied the drugs were his. Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies said they stopped a vehicle driving without its lights on at 4 a.m. last Saturday. WFLA-TV reports the driver was arrested on charges of DUI and marijuana possession. Authorities said...

Shares of German cannabis company SynBiotic rose sharply Thursday a day after the incoming government pledged to make the drug legal.

The plan will grant the government power to regulate the prices of some of the most expensive drugs and limit out-of-pocket costs for seniors.

“We’re on pace to have 10 million courses ready before the end of this year, and more than double that next year,” Merck CEO Robert Davis told CNBC on Thursday.

A police investigation into drug and gun trafficking at a Connecticut hotel has led to the arrests of four men, authorities announced on Saturday. A regional police narcotics task force and federal agents focused on the Hawthorn Suites in Manchester this past summer after receiving complaints and reports of gunshots fired, Manchester police Sgt. Shawn Krom said in a statement….

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.

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