drugs

The pandemic brought on a multitude of issues, but one that fell by the wayside was the opioid and drug overdose crisis.

Nearly 800 Missourians died from opioid overdoses in the first half of 2021. In Columbia, a rash of overdose deaths has pushed the community to change its attitude on harm reduction efforts.

Interests on both sides of the program — hospitals and drugmakers — say they are at the mercy of a program designed with the best of intentions, now run amok, hijacked by for-profit companies and wealthy hospitals trying to profit from its largesse.

Psychedelic drugs often have a negative connotation but ongoing clinical trials show they can be beneficial to some patients.

Some in public health now argue that when providers use such monitoring programs to cut off prescription opiate misuse, people who have an addiction instead turn to heroin and fentanyl.

Two bills could reduce prison and probation sentences for many low-level drug crimes, like possession and intent to distribute small amounts.

The political and cultural divide between urban and rural communities is as deep and sharp as ever. But the two regions have a lot in common: drug abuse, poverty and a shortage of affordable housing. That’s the short list.

The indictment is the latest in a series of criminal woes to befall Brian Douglas Smith, who owned the popular burger joint at 1611 Genessee St. and ran it for nearly five years.

As the United States struggled with a crisis of addiction to opioids and other drugs over the past few years, scientists began to learn how addiction and…

The story of the pugnacious Kansas sheriff and attorney general Vern Miller, whose antics seemed to be a throwback to the Wild West era but left a…

Jackson County Executive Frank White Thursday blasted the audit of the COMBAT anti-crime tax commissioned by the prosecutor's office. "Unlike numerous…

Over the last three years, millions of dollars generated by COMBAT, the anti-drug and anti-violence sales tax in Jackson County, has been spent with…