Tagged With Heroin

A man spent over a month in jail on charges of heroin possession. His 'drugs' were actually laundry detergent.

Susanna Heller

These are the new deadliest drugs in America, from fentanyl to heroin

Caroline Praderio, Leah Rocketto

San Francisco's dirtiest street has an outdoor drug market, discarded heroin needles, and piles of poop on the footpath

Aria Bendix

Mexican troops are in the streets to fight the drug war, and the country's defence chief says legalisation may be 'a way out'

Christopher Woody

Afghanistan is producing a lot more opium than before the US invasion. The US just can't stop it

Christopher Woody

Over 10% of people who don't use drugs have traces of cocaine and heroin on their fingertips

Lindsay Dodgson

A deadly drug epidemic sweeping the US has caused ER visits for overdoses to jump 30%

Erin Brodwin

A mysterious supplement with a viral following has been officially declared an opioid by the FDA

Erin Brodwin

Mexican heroin is flooding the US, and the Sinaloa cartel is steering the flow

Christopher Woody

Opium production has set another record in Afghanistan -- here's where it increased the most

Christopher Woody

The stench from an overcrowded morgue in one of Mexico's most violent areas forced a government shutdown

Christopher Woody

These maps show that counties where opioid deaths and prescription rates are highest are also places where Trump won big in 2016

Michal Kranz, Skye Gould

One of Trump's first major solutions to the opioid crisis could actually make the problem worse

Michelle Mark, Harrison Jacobs

Heroin is driving a sinister trend in Afghanistan

Christopher Woody

More Americans have died from the opioid crisis than in the Vietnam War -- a former addict says he attends a funeral every 6 months

Michal Kranz

Shares in drug maker Indivior tanked almost 40% after losing its heroin treatment copyright case

Oscar Williams-Grut

Fake painkillers laced with a legal drug 50 times stronger than heroin are showing up in an 'inevitable' place

Erin Brodwin

Drugs are killing far more Americans than we thought, new studies suggest

Erin Brodwin, Harrison Jacobs

Authorities just took down AlphaBay, an online black market 10 times bigger than Silk Road

Kif Leswing

Homeland Security chief John Kelly and CIA director Mike Pompeo reportedly flew over Mexican opium fields

Christopher Woody, Associated Press