The FBI and Philadelphia's top federal prosecutor announced Friday the takedown of the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization that they say ran like a business and peddled in poison for more ...

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A synthetic opioid you've likely never heard of is quietly surfacing in street drugs across the US, and it makes fentanyl look weak. The New York Times reports that "orphines," an experimental opioid ...

Mark Schiefelbein/AP / AP Earlier this year, Naida Rutherford, the coroner in Richland County, South Carolina, was helping investigate what appeared to be a mysterious overdose. The case had many of ...

The U.S. addiction crisis is evolving in ways that experts say are both hopeful and incredibly dangerous. The good news is that fatal overdoses from fentanyl and other street drugs keep dropping. But ...

A class of synthetic drugs called orphines is throwing a new wrench into the ever-evolving opioid crisis in the United States. These drugs have tenfold the potency of fentanyl and have led to numerous ...

Rural hospitals made up a larger share of 2026 layoffs as closures slowed. About 720 rural hospitals remain at risk of closing, raising access concerns. If Passed, Idaho's Proposition 1 Would Allow ...

The FBI and federal prosecutors on Friday announced a “historic” indictment charging 33 alleged members of the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization accused of fueling Kensington’s open-air ...

A sedative developed for cats and dogs is turning up in Scotland’s illicit drug supply. Medetomidine has been found in a fifth of heroin samples in Scotland, and there is no proven antidote if someone ...

Oysters on common street drugs move strangely, eat less and die younger, researchers found. Scientists administered drugs to oyster larvae in dishes to better understand how drugs found in surface ...