Aug. 5, 2026 BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Kratom products are now illegal to sell across the state.

May 28, 2026 Despite a handful of states in the West where overdose deaths are surging, overall street drug fatalities in the U.S. continued to drop at a historic rate in 2025, falling roughly 14% compared with 2024.

June 25 2026 For the third year in a row, accidental drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths have dropped in Los Angeles County, a decline officials attribute to ongoing investments in prevention and harm reduction resources countywide.

July 21 2026 KINGMAN, Ariz. (AZFamily/Gray News) - Just a week after an Arizona woman started taking a kratom supplement, her husband found her unresponsive in their bed.

July 2, 2026 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is planning to temporarily ban products containing certain synthetic versions of kratom, placing them in the same category as heroin and LSD.

June 19, 2026 Cleavotta Morgan said her son, Daejon Morgan, called her every day from his cell at Men’s Central Jail. The 20-year-old inmate would ask her to pass the phone around to different members of the family.

June 15, 2026 The rise of kratom, and especially its potent synthetic derivative 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), feels dangerously familiar. Kratom is a psychoactive substance marketed as natural and medicinal, inadequately regulated, and defended by an industry that resists meaningful oversight

May 13, 2026 Overdose deaths in the U.S. remain high but decreased nearly 14% last year, according to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

April 10, 2026 NEW YORK - Three large-scale, yet unrelated fentanyl packaging operations were dismantled in the Bronx and Manhattan on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.

March 27, 2026 Calls to poison centers in the United States about the widely available herb kratom increased more than 1,200% between 2015 and 2025, new research has found.

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May 22, 2025 Franklin Taveras can often spot a veteran on the streets of New York City before they even exchange words.

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March 28, 2025 CNN — India has emerged as a growing player in the illicit fentanyl trade, a new US intelligence report says, a...

Apr 21, 2025 Sacramento, California – Today, Governor Newsom announced that individual twin-packs of CalRx®-branded over-the-counter...

February 12, 2025 The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “ fourth wave ” of the opioid epidemic is...

March 19, 2025 Purdue Pharma filed a new bankruptcy plan on Tuesday, a major step toward finalizing a proposed opioid settlement of at...

March 13, 2025 SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- High School students in Santa Rosa are mourning the loss of two classmates and one former...

October 29, 2024 The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people...

November 22, 2024 San Francisco this past week reported the lowest number of monthly drug overdose deaths in four years, continuing a...