Operation Pacific Viper: U.S. Coast Guard Announces Largest Drug Offload in its History

August 26, 2025 The Coast Guard achieved its largest-ever drug seizure in a single operation in its history Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloaded over 76,000 pounds of illegal drugs, valued at $473 million, at Port Everglades, ...

A Quiet Epidemic: What the Data Tells Us About Addiction in Egypt

By Farah Samir August 18, 2025 Addiction in Egypt is far more widespread than public conversation suggests. Behind closed doors, in homes, hospitals, and rehab centers, thousands are caught in a cycle of substance use, mental health struggles, ...

Quitting smoking linked to better recovery from drug and alcohol addiction

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Aug 13 2025 Adults who smoke cigarettes and are addicted to alcohol or other drugs were more likely to achieve sustained remission of their substance use disorder symptoms if they also quit smoking, according ...

Positive drug tests down sharply in schools

By JULE HUBBARD WILKES JOURNAL-PATRIOT STAFF / Aug 6, 2025 Updated 7 hrs ago The number of Wilkes County high school students testing positive in random drug tests decreased from 30 out of 432 tested in the 2023-24 school year to 13 ...

Youth Ministry launches nationwide drug abuse campaign and development programmes under Youth Festival Month

General (https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/category/general/), News (https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/category/news/) August 4, 2025 By: Maltiti Sayida Sadick In a bid to curb the rising threat of drug abuse among Ghanaian youth, the ...

Shocking new report finds this drug is more deadly than fentanyl

Katie Hawkinson Fri 1 August 2025 at 1:30 am GMT+8 3 min read Shocking new report finds this drug is more deadly than fentanyl A relatively unknown and dangerous opioid ...

Himachal Pradesh adopts zero-tolerance policy against drug abuse: CM

In a Cabinet meeting held here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, the Police, Social Justice and Empowerment, and Health Departments made detailed presentations on the steps being taken to combat drug abuse in the ...

Could Ketamine Addiction Become the UK’s Next Drug Crisis?

Siobhan Harris /July 23, 2025 Doctors are warning that ketamine is not the harmless party drug many believe it to be, as rising numbers of young people in the UK are being treated for addiction and serious organ damage. Despite the surge in ...

What are nitazenes? Why Pennsylvania wants synthetic opioid listed as street drug

Damon C. Williams (https://www.phillyburbs.com/staff/4555603001/damon-c-williams/) USA TODAY NETWORK Pennsylvania’s Attorney General recently noted more than 5,000 Pennsylvanians died from heroin and opioid ...

Reformed drug addicts praise police gender desk for life transformation

Published at 06:56 AM Jul 15 2025 By Guardian Correspondent , The Guardian FORMER drug and alcohol addicts in Kilolo District, Iringa Region, have commended the Tanzania Police Force’s Gender and Children’s Desk for playing ...

Student Body Launches Crusade Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse

JKUAT News (https://www.jkuat.ac.ke/category/jkuat-news/) July 9, 2025 Jomo Kenyatta University Students Association (JKUSA), in a determined effort to curb the rising tide of alcohol and drug abuse among university students, has launched a ...

At the intersection of mental health and drug abuse

by Special to the AFRO (https://afro.com/author/special-to-the-afro/)July 7, 2025 By Nyla Adams AFRO Intern Take a good look around any major urban area– and now, many rural spaces too– and you’ll see signs of drug ...