The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that aims to lower the cost of prescription drugs by allowing the federal government to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies and capping the amount companies can charge for their products.
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The case against a former West Virginia court clerk accused of trying to operate a meth lab from her home may soon be resolved, as the judge overseeing it indicated Tuesday that a plea deal is close.
Read moreTwenty-five people filed separate lawsuits against former Jackson County, Fla., sheriff’s Officer Zachary Wester, claiming he planted drugs on them: more than 100 cases Wester brought have been dropped, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
Read moreA former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department captain was indicted Friday on charges he allegedly ran an illegal firearms-trafficking business in part to cultivate future donors for his anticipated campaign for sheriff of San Diego County.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded summary denial of a motion to reduce a drug offender’s sentence under the First Step Act.
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A former Houston policeman made his first appearance in federal court Wednesday to face charges that a married couple was shot dead by a SWAT team in their home because he made false statements in a warrant affidavit.
Read moreA former New York inmate claims in a federal class action that two diagnostic companies issued drug tests that produced false positives, forcing her to be kept in the same cell for 11 straight days.
Read moreA Spanish National Court official confirmed Monday that a former Venezuelan spymaster accused of attempting to “flood” the United States with drugs remains missing since an order for his arrest pending extradition was issued this month.
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A Chinese court sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers on Thursday in the culmination of a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack down on global networks that manufacture and distribute lethal synthetic opioids.
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At least three women and six children from an American Mormon community in northern Mexico have been killed in an ambush in an area notorious for drug traffickers and bandits, a relative said.
Read moreIn the first civil lawsuit arising from the Amherst drug lab scandal, the First Circuit questioned the liability a lab supervisor might owe for letting chemist Sonja Farak’s abuses go on so long.
Read moreRemanding in a split ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court found that Indiana’s seizure of a man’s car that was only peripherally involved in a drug deal may have been a grossly disproportionate fine, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Read moreEvery day they come. Drug mules from French Guiana in South America, carrying cocaine in their luggage or their stomachs, playing a cat-and-mouse game with customs officials at Paris’ Orly airport.
Read moreSri Lanka’s top court on Tuesday effectively blocked a plan by the president to bring back hangings for the first time since 1976 before he leaves office next month.
Read moreSenator Bernie Sanders on Thursday proposed nationwide legalization of marijuana, to “end the horrifically destructive war on drugs,” that he said “disproportionately targeted people of color and ruined the lives of millions of Americans.”
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Fentanyl is driving drug overdose deaths in the U.S. overall, but in the Western half of the country, it’s a different story. Meth is the bigger killer, a new government report shows.
Read moreOnly two days into their deliberations, a federal jury in New York reached a verdict sure to cause a political earthquake in Latin America. Honduran Congressman Antonio “Tony” Hernández was found guilty Friday of a drug-trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors say also involved that country’s president.
Read moreJohnny Depp’s lawyers describe the actor as upfront about his past substance abuse, a man with nothing to hide. That may be more true than ever after a Virginia judge ruled Friday that he must give his ex-wife’s attorneys access to medical records related to his alcohol and drug use.
Read moreA 23-year-old online drug dealer was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for selling counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a La Jolla resident.
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