A small federal agency tasked with mitigating the impact of addiction is facing deep cuts on multiple fronts, threatening to roll back years of lifesaving work.

H.R. McMaster says Donald Trump wanted to “bomb the drugs” in Mexico.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.

Conservatives are bringing back some tactics from the original drug war. They’re cruel—and they also don’t stand a chance of working.

GOP lawmakers in the House take up fentanyl, drug addiction, and the border as their new causes célèbres.

Urban legends about poisoned candy have changed to match the times.

Politicians and lawmakers are equating large-scale fentanyl seizures with progress in combating the drug’s epidemic, forgetting the lessons from the age of crack.

The GOP is ramping up its rhetoric about Biden, the border, kids, and overdoses.

The California governor’s shock veto of a bill that would have created safe injection sites is a shameful play for major donors who would fuel a future presidential run, at the expense of his most vulnerable constituents.

Social equity programs were supposed to correct the disparities of the war on drugs as marijuana became legal. What went wrong?

The District is used to Republicans thwarting its independence. But local politicians are appalled that Democrats are now doing the same.

Working as a police informant can be deadly—and people with a history of drug use are at extra risk of relapse or overdose.

Police around the country have claimed to overdose on fentanyl merely from handling the drug. What’s really going on?

Both coffee and opium come from plants. Why embrace one and not the other?

They seeded medical breakthroughs and emerging markets. Now expunge their criminal records and let them go legit.

Traditional treatments often take place in expensive facilities, demand total abstinence, and rely on punitive methods of control. A harm reduction model turns all of that on its head.

Sizing up the commercial and therapeutic prospects for the psychedelic revival

From alcohol to amphetamines, a new book shows intimate links between the policing of substances and the waging of war.

The paper's otherwise stellar investigative journalism accidentally exposes the failed Beltway consensus.