Fentanyl crisis

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk issued a call for the international community to abandon punitive drug policies, declaring that the global war on drugs has failed. "The evidence is clear. The so-called War on Drugs has failed, completely and utterly. And...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in a letter published Tuesday, addressing the issue of the fentanyl crisis and broader drug-related challenges. Her message emphasized cooperation over confrontation — whereas Trump has a penchant for the latter....

Vice President Kamala Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday where she called for tighter asylum restrictions and vowed to make the smuggling of deadly fentanyl a “top priority” as she laid out plans to fix what she called "our broken immigration system.”   In her first...

West Virginia is grappling with a grim reality: the nation's highest rate of fatal fentanyl overdoses resulting in 60.8 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the midst of this crisis, a surprising voice has emerged calling for...