The United States on Tuesday issued sanctions on a Chinese national alleged to be "one of the most significant drug traffickers in the world," according to the State Department. 
Americans, you may have heard, are dying "deaths of despair": suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease that are together driving down the nation's life expectancy. The concept has been bandied about since it was coined by a pair of Princeton economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton. After five years, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism is the pair's book-length offering on what they believe is driving the crisis. 
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that under his administration, heroin possession would not be illegal or would at most be a misdemeanor. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in his first ever campaign for the U.S. Senate made the legalization of all drug use one of the cornerstones of his policy platform. 
The United States is facing a drug overdose epidemic driven by methamphetamine, cocaine, and synthetic opioids, data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control confirm. 
The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the indictment of four men it claimed have been smuggling cocaine into the United States for almost 15 years. 
A group of Republican senators is pushing for the United States to treat drug cartels the way it does terrorist organizations following the massacre of nine American women and children in Mexico.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris lamented the mass incarceration of those convicted of marijuana-related offenses Thursday, without acknowledging the thousands who were incarcerated in California under her watch. 
Marijuana may not be an effective tool for those struggling with opioid addiction, according to a new analysis. While marijuana advocates have claimed that the drug can help fight the opioid epidemic, an analysis published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds the science behind this claim is equivocal at best. 
Texas Democratic state representative Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez turned himself in Thursday after a video surveillance camera captured him dropping a cocaine-filled bag at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. 