Tag: Drugs

Nancy Reagan–Drug Warrior

John Walters, Brian Blake, David Murray · March 8, 2016 12:10 am

GOP senator on passage of heroin bill: ‘Life or death issue’

GOP senator on passage of heroin bill: ‘Life or death issue’

Anna Giaritelli · March 5, 2016 4:24 pm

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., center, accompanied by, from left, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., speak during a news conference on opioid and heroin abuse on Feb. 11 on Capitol Hill. (AP photo)

Manchin: Addiction should be bigger focus of FDA approval

Curt Mills · February 29, 2016 5:01 am

This bill is designed to ensure that federal resources are devoted to evidence-based treatment and recovery programs that work. And it tackles this problem of babies born with addiction. (AP Photo)

Bipartisan anti-heroin plan helps women, babies

Rob Portman · February 29, 2016 2:00 am

Cruz, Christie show different approaches to drug abuse

Cruz, Christie show different approaches to drug abuse

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 7, 2016 3:24 am

Trump joins Cruz in tying heroin crisis to border security. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Trump promises to fight New Hampshire’s drug epidemic — by building a wall in Arizona

Kelly Cohen · February 6, 2016 5:29 pm

The request includes $920 million for cooperative agreements with states to expand access to medication-assisted treatment, which is critical to solving the opioid epidemic that kills 44 Americans a day, officials said. (AP Photo)

Obama pushes big funding increase for opioid fight

Robert King · February 2, 2016 6:22 pm

Playing Politics with the Heroin Epidemic

David Murray · February 1, 2016 1:18 pm

Portman said the legislation in the Senate would "prevent abuse before it starts." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

GOP: Heroin and prescription drugs kill more than cars

Curt Mills · January 30, 2016 3:25 pm

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, D-N.H., left, speaks as Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-Vt., listen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on attacking America's epidemic of heroin and prescription drug abuse. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senators seek expanded federal aid to fight heroin, prescription drug abuse

Kelly Cohen · January 27, 2016 11:32 pm

Prescriptions for opioids dropped 22 percent after new rules started, according to a new study. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Restrictions cut into painkiller prescriptions

Robert King · January 19, 2016 5:01 am

Bernie Sanders speaks says he'd get rid of all the bankers at the Federal Reserve if he wins the White House. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Sanders on heroin issue: ‘Addiction is a disease, not a criminal activity’

Al Weaver · December 20, 2015 4:28 am