Connecticut has banned tianeptine, known as "gas station heroin," classifying it as Schedule I as 14 states crack down on the addictive substance.

Tennessee lawmakers have passed a full ban on kratom, derived from a Southeast Asian plant, following a weeks-long debate ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chrissy Reifschneider had just left rehab to treat her heroin addiction in 2017 when she started taking tianeptine, popularly ...

If you are worried someone close to you is using heroin, here's a list of resources to help you and your family get the help needed. Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most ...

The following script is from "Heroin in the Heartland" which aired on Nov. 1, 2015, and was rebroadcast on Aug. 7, 2016. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Tom Anderson and Michelle St. John, ...

A special narcotics court has sentenced Badshah Wazir to life imprisonment and fined him Rs1 million in a case involving ...

CHANDIGARH: A cross border drug smuggling module in Amritsar was busted by the Punjab Police with the arrest of two persons ...

The cross-border syndicate, linked to Portugal and Pakistan-based handlers, is reportedly connected to notorious gang ...

Federal and local authorities nationwide now consider heroin to be the biggest drug epidemic in the country. Not methamphetamines or cocaine, heroin. Dealers, connected to Mexican drug cartels, are ...