Seattle's new drug enforcement approach sparks debate as police and advocates warn of rising crime and open-air drug markets returning to streets.

(Issouf SANOGO/AFP/AFP) In Ivory Coast's biggest city Abidjan, vulnerable drug addicts say that discovering a secluded care and support centre in an upscale part of the city has helped them to turn ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago police program aimed at keeping people addicted to drugs out of jail is being expanded because it's working so well. Donald Davis is a heroin addict, but with the help of ...

At least two major West Coast cities are rethinking their so-called harm reduction policies that have sought to address addiction, signaling that these areas are overhauling their strategy to combat ...

Courtney Nunnally scrolled on her phone in the back of the Richmond police SUV. The fluorescent lights from the strip centers, gas stations and cheap motels lining Midlothian Turnpike shined through ...

Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. After struggling with addiction for years in February he died of a heroin overdose. "I wake him up the ...

Mayor Eric Adams, facing a tough reelection battle, is proposing legislation to allow for the forcible removal of drug addicts from New York City streets. The proposal, which Mr. Adams announced this ...

SHELTERING in the underpass a stone’s throw from a busy shopping arcade, a young man sits hunched, begging for money to feed ...

KOTA TINGGI, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) has proposed that narcotics addiction rehabilitation centres (PUSPEN) be gazetted as special prisons for drug addicts ...

Chandigarh: To eradicate the drug menace from the state, Punjab health minister Dr Balbir Singh on Monday directed all the deputy commissioners to collaborate with the ITIs, Krishi Vikas Kendras, NGOs ...