In 1971 President Nixon declared war on drugs. This was the time of the counterculture with millions of young Americans turning to marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs to feel the “high” that so many ...

A power vacuum at the top of the Jalisco New Generation cartel could lead to more violence in the days and weeks to come, an ASU expert says.

We need to address the demand for drugs.

The U.S. and its allies have spilled blood and treasure to kill drug lords and defeat cartels, but the drugs keep coming and the new groups are more violent than ever.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When two alleged drug traffickers survived a U.S. military strike last week in the Caribbean, they left the Trump administration with a decision to make: send them back home, or ...

The death of El Mencho decapitates one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, but there’s a whole lot more sustaining the drug industry nowadays.

So far President Trump’s regional drug wars zero in on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean. Will he now go after the most threatening narcotic exporters, the traffickers based south of the border?

SACRAMENTO — The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: “America’s public enemy number one … is drug abuse. In order to fight ...

The killing of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins over the weekend signals the start of a more forceful chapter in the country’s war against drug cartels, as President Trump has pressured ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. The U.S. prison population has declined in the past few years but the incarceration rate is still the highest in the world. Prison ...

Has the once ballyhooed U.S. “war on drugs” been put on the policy backburner? Many experts think it has, and also that this might be a good thing. As the Bush administration has turned its attention ...

Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth ...