Veterans who saw combat after 9/11 are more likely to be victims of America's opioid crisis, adding "an important front in the Global War on Terrorism," according to a study. 
Delving into more than 100 years of data, a report released Thursday casts new light on America's ongoing battle with "deaths of despair." The issue has risen to prominence since economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton's groundbreaking work revealed that American middle-aged mortality rates had been rising since the year 2000.
The Department of Justice indicted 35 drug traffickers who collectively participated in a conspiracy to sell tons of highly potent drugs in eastern Virginia. 
The Department of Justice has broken up a drug ring allegedly responsible for conspiring to distribute 23 million opioid pills. 
There is, as Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg correctly noted, a surging wave of suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol deaths. These have been collectively labeled "deaths of despair," first in academic literature and then in the popular press. 
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will order mail carriers, including FedEx, Amazon, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service, to search for the deadly drug fentanyl in packages sent from China. The market for fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid, is growing in rapid and disturbing ways, a series of advisories released Wednesday by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) indicate. 
As his state struggles to find the drugs required for lethal injection, an Ohio lawmaker wants to use fentanyl seized by the police to execute the state's death row inmates. 
The number of drug overdose deaths fell slightly in 2018, preliminary data released Wednesday indicate, causing government officials to claim that they are "beginning to win the fight against this crisis." 
Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma on Monday called on a judge to find pharmaceutical concern Johnson and Johnson legally culpable for the opioid crisis. 