The Biden administration will be spending $3.6 million to set up vending machines in rural Kentucky that will distribute drug supplies as part of a project run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Our kiosk, or KyOSK (KY Outreach Service Kiosk), will be supplied with injection equipment, naloxone, fentanyl test strips, hygiene kits, condoms,…

Melissa Hadden used to chase her high-on-drugs daughter out of the house and away from the kids, but now all she wants is for her to come home alive. “I just hope that nothing bad happens to her. I just want my daughter home. The kids want her home,” Hadden told The Epoch Times on…

VANCOUVER—Residents living near a homeless camp in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are speaking out as they question how much longer the camp will occupy the area. Meanwhile, advocates for the homeless point to the encampment as an example of political inaction in response to a problem that has needed attention for years, as some pundits question…

Commentary Carolyn Bennett, federal minister of mental health and addictions, recently announced a change to Canada’s policies on illegal drug use. As of Jan. 1, 2023, a three-year experimental period will be inaugurated in British Columbia whereby small quantities of substances such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA (ecstasy) will be allowed for personal use….

Commentary In the face of bad behaviour, our societies have increasingly one response: retreat, appeasement, and surrender. In California, for example, shoplifting has been all but legalized. Think of the advantages: the police time saved, the young people unstigmatized by a criminal record, the economic redistribution in an unequal society, the racial justice furthered (insofar…

At his 25th wedding anniversary, Winnipegger Randy Makinson thought he had it all: a long happy marriage, the joys of children, and a well-paying job fixing race car engines. But soon his wife left him, sending him into a spiral of loneliness and drug addiction that cost him his job and nearly his life. The good…

A study on the Global Drug Survey 2021 has raised questions on the phenomenon of binaural beats in audio files being consumed as “digital drugs” capable of “eliciting mental and emotional responses” akin to psychoactive drugs. “We’re starting to see digital experiences defined as drugs, but they could also be seen as complementary practices alongside…

Homeless issues in Tyler, Texas, are not expected to be eradicated, said the city’s mayor and a police sergeant on Feb. 24, to The Epoch Times. But there is the expectation that Tyler’s homeless problem can be “mitigated, managed, and controlled,” given the right focus and proper distribution of available resources. Civic leaders and police…

SAN FRANCISCO—A small group of women stood together in front of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Linkage Center near the United Nations Plaza at Civic Center on Feb. 5 to express their opposition to the alleged open-air drug use taking place at the center. Holding a chain and posters with photos of young adults, the group, Mothers…

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Ten substance abuse facility owners and patient recruiters in Orange County were criminally charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Dec. 16, for kickback schemes involving exploiting addiction patients seeking help. For 10 months, The Sober Homes Initiative in Southern California, an anti-fraud initiative led by the DOJ’s Health Care Fraud Unit…