Nagaon Police arrested an alleged drug peddler and seized suspected narcotic substances, including 60 grams of heroin, during ...

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In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

Bill Maher supports the recent departure of longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley, he told Sen. Chris Murphy ...

Newlyweds, honor students and executives are just a few of the lives lost to overdoses so far in 2017 Alexandra Rockey Fleming is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been covering breaking news, ...

The famed Neville Brothers frontman chronicles his extraordinary life and harrowing addiction journey in new memoir 'Tell It Like It Is: My Story' Janine Rubenstein is Editor-at-Large at PEOPLE and ...

Heroin belongs to a class of drugs that scientists call opioids. People who use the drug may be at risk of developing certain infections, such as wound botulism, infective endocarditis, and tetanus.

Federal and local authorities nationwide now consider heroin to be the biggest drug epidemic in the country. Not methamphetamines or cocaine, heroin. Dealers, connected to Mexican drug cartels, are ...

The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was always the stable one in the band but for a dark period even he succumbed to ...

Kennedy Jr. announced new federal initiatives to curb prescribing of antidepressants, which he has long attacked with false and dangerous claims. Mental health experts have previously condemned his ...