Trump Administration Plans U.N. Meeting to Ramp Up the International Drug War The Trump administration will open a week of high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly in New York with a drug policy event featuring President…

USA. The Health 202: Obscure provision in House opioids' bill could restart war on drugs (...) The issue in question is a change that has been mostly under the radar as lawmakers move a package of dozens of bills to address the publi…

USA. Senate passes sweeping legislation to combat opioid epidemic Lawmakers in both chambers have responded public pressure to find solutions to a deadly crisis that has affected every state in the nation. (NBC, USA, 18.09.2018) https://www.nbcnew…

USA. The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis - Opinion The Drug Enforcement Administration has proved itself incompetent for decades.  By Leo Beletsky and Jeremiah Goulka Professor Beletsky is the faculty director of Northeastern Uni…

USA. Inside America’s Opioid Crisis Getty photographer Spencer Platt spent years on assignment documenting the crisis, and spoke to Newsweekabout the worrying reach of addiction, and the humanity he encountered while photographing t…

USA. Poorest Americans most likely to have used prescription opioids  BUFFALO, N.Y. - Among older Americans, the poorest are the most likely to have used prescription opioids, according to a University at Buffalo study providing new insights i…