Jeffrey Coolidge / Getty Images Drug Lord on DEA's Most Wanted List to Be Extradited to the US Columbia announced that Dairo Antonio Úsuga was captured after a joint army, air force and police operation. By Sebastian Hughes October 25, 2021
Ted S. Warren / AP State Plans for Government-Sanctioned 'Injection Sites,' Would Evaluate Quality of Hard Drugs and Allow Users to Shoot Up Rhode Island is moving forward on its plan to ensure the users of illegal drugs have safe spaces to use their drugs. By Jack Davis October 24, 2021
Johannes Eisele - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary Biden Admin Plans to Eliminate Punishments for Dealers Selling Deadly Fentanyl-Related Drugs In a year where seizures of opioids are through the roof, the Biden administration is looking to take it easy on drug traffickers. By C. Douglas Golden September 4, 2021
FOX 13 Tampa Bay / YouTube screen shotCommentary Sheriff Throws on Oversized Chain Seized in Drug Bust, Raps a Few Lines About the Men Now Behind Bars 'You see, we got your gold. We put your tail, in the county jail. Think about that, brothers,' Polk County Sheriff Judd said. By Cameron Arcand August 9, 2021
@bennyjohnson / Twitter screen shotCommentary Devastating Side-by-Side Video Shows Joe Biden Pushing Strict Penalties for Crack While Hunter Smokes It As a senator, Joe Biden spoke at length about the dangers people who smoke crack cocaine pose to society. The irony is palpable. By Elizabeth Stauffer July 28, 2021
@JeanSwanson_ / TwitterCommentary City Council Member Claims She's Saving Lives by Handing Out Doses of 'Safe' Drugs Like Heroin at Event Marketed with Cartoon Crack Pipe Remember a decade ago when leftists began enabling drug addicts by providing them with free needles? In retrospect, that decision was mild. By Johnathan Jones July 17, 2021
Darren McCollester / Getty ImagesCommentary After Pleading Guilty and Paying $8 Billion Fine, Oxycontin Makers Claim Innocence in Opioid Crisis A branch of the Sackler family launched a website arguing that its role fueling the opioid crisis was overstated as part of a smear campaign. By Andrew Thornebrooke June 2, 2021
Sergio Flores - AFP / Getty Images Could Kill 800,000 People: Woman Crosses Southern Border with Massive Heroin Stockpile 'Yes, there may be people coming across the border but there’s dangerous drugs coming across the border,' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. By Jack Davis May 20, 2021
John Moore / Getty ImagesCommentary 2021 Fentanyl Seizures by CBP Already Top All of 2020 The number of Americans at risk from such a high amount of fentanyl being brought in is difficult to overstate. By Andrew Thornebrooke May 18, 2021
Donald J Trump / YouTube screen shot 'Simply Brilliant': Trump Super Bowl Ad Sets Social Media Ablaze with Criminal Justice Theme The ad features the story of Alice Marie Johnson, who was sentenced in the mid 1990s to life in prison. In 2018, Trump commuted Johnson's sentence. By Joe Setyon February 2, 2020