Opioid Crisis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a non-opioid pain medication that can prevent people from becoming addicted and at risk of overdosing.

A Memphis, Tennessee, woman is now raising five of her grandchildren after losing her two daughters to fentanyl just months apart.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is a cheerleader for mass migration and for illegal migrants, just like his partner at the top of the 2024 ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Parents in Minnesota are facing charges related to the fentanyl overdose death of their one-year-old baby girl in December of 2023.

Oregon’s fentanyl overdose rate has surged by 1,530 percent over the last few years, making the state home to the worst increase in the U.S.

A coalition of Oregon political and business leaders are demanding that legislators recriminalize possession of hard drugs and public drug use after the decriminalization measure passed just three years ago failed miserably.

The order will enhance the activation, implementation, and coordination of aid agreements between the District, federal, and local authorities to allegedly reduce crime. 

The drug overdose crisis has intensified as efforts by politicians in Washington, DC, fail to remedy the issue devastating so many Americans, according to Politico.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed proposed a plan which would require welfare recipients to undergo drug testing and engage in treatment programs.

Homeless Americans, in a zombie-like state as a result of being addicted to Xylazine known as tranq, are filling the streets of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, new footage shows.

The “tranq” drug is taking a costly toll in Philadelphia, and video footage posted Thursday shows those caught in its grip.

An Illinois teenager has been arrested for allegedly selling “fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills that were intended to resemble legitimate prescription medications,” according to police.

Left-wing activists have targeted local courts as an avenue for achieving their policy goals in areas where they cannot get elected.

“Students will be able to carry Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose, in Los Angeles,” reports the far-left Los Angeles Times.

Seattle-area health officials recently admitted they are struggling to find space to store dead bodies in the morgue due to an increase in fentanyl overdose deaths.

The rise in “deaths of despair” among middle-aged white Americans may be linked to the decline in religious practice, according to new research.

A New Jersey middle school teacher is facing charges after he overdosed on fentanyl in front of a classroom of students.

U.S. life expectancy declined to a 25-year low in 2021 as nearly 107,000 Americans died from drug overdose deaths last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data published Thursday.

Democrats enable three essential layers of fentanyl production and illicit distribution across America, J.D. Vance told Breitbart News.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) seemingly chuckled as Republican J.D. Vance called him out for taking campaign cash from drug corporations linked to the nation’s deadly opioid crisis during the final debate ahead of the Ohio Senate election next month.

Mark Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, AZ, noted on Wednesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow that China supplies transnational criminal cartels based in Mexico with most essential ingredients required to produce fentanyl.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Mehmet Oz (R) for the state’s open United States Senate seat, is refusing to commit to supporting legislation that would make it easier for law enforcement to lock up dealers of illicit fentanyl.

Republican J.D. Vance says “pharmaceutical blood money” is fueling Rep. Tim Ryan’s (D-OH) Senate campaign in Ohio.

Approximately $172,500 worth of fentanyl tablets were seized by authorities at a mailing facility on Thursday in Gainesville, Georgia.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) is leading an effort to declare illicit fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) being used against hundreds of thousands of American citizens, a plan exclusively shared with Breitbart News reveals. 

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), running against Republican J.D. Vance for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, is raking in campaign contributions from drug corporations linked to the nation’s deadly opioid crisis. 

The DEA announced Tuesday that a task force team busted a New Jersey woman trafficking approximately 15,000 rainbow fentanyl pills stuffed in Lego boxes in Manhattan. The drug agency noted that this “significant seizure” of the colored pills was the largest in New York City’s history.

A Narcan vending machine, which dispenses life-saving naloxone to treat opioid overdoses, was emptied approximately one day after being installed in Vine Grove, Kentucky.

Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, made an unplanned stop Monday during his campaign to take several Pennsylvanians struggling with drug addiction to a detox center for treatment.

Most Americans do not believe President Joe Biden has done enough to fight the opioid crisis in the country, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found.

Republicans are increasingly urging President Joe Biden to stop his efforts to end Title 42, the public health authority used at the United States-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration, and instead use the policy to fight the nation’s deadly fentanyl crisis.

Republican Jim Bognet, running against Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright in Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District, says the United States must make mercilessly prosecuting fentanyl traffickers a national priority.

Author J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, is out with a provocative new television advertisement on Tuesday calling out establishment media outlets for claiming Americans who want to secure the border and stop the flow of illicit drugs are “racist.”

President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, suggested that “there were no identifiable victims” in a case where she reduced the prison sentence of a self-proclaimed drug “kingpin.”

U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) said he was in a truck with Border Patrol agents witnessing the chaos at America’s southern border where agents had to get out and “arrest cartel members that were coming across.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that the Biden administration’s failure to control the border and coronavirus lockdowns have caused the large numbers of recent opioid deaths, and that it’s