Lawyers

• Washington Mother Facing Charges For Injecting 3 Children With Heroin; Calling it ‘Feel Good Medicine’

  Court documents say Ashlee Hutt and Leroy McIver were found living with their three children in a home filled with rat droppings, and injecting them with heroin.

• House Approved Bipartisan Drug Abuse Bills, Additional $1.1 Billion Fund Proposed

  Bills have been approved by the House to combat the nationwide problem on the misuse of prescription opioids including heroin addiction. Millions of people abuse these painkillers leading to overdose and eventually death. The government put much effort to address the issue.

• New England Cites Marijuana to Hold Off Opiate Addiction

  Marijuana legalization has been an issue around the world whether its for medical purposes or recreational. Many states have already legalized it for different reasons and New England has plans to follow suit. It seeks to make marijuana legal to supress the country's opiate crisis.

• California Lawmaker Proposes Supervised Heroin Use at Facilities

  A California lawmaker wants people to be allowed to use heroin, crack, opioids and other drugs with supervision. The proposal says there should be legal drug-injection sites.

• Obama Announces New Measures To Fight Opioid, Heroin Abuse Epidemic

  President Barack Obama and his administration have announced new actions to combat heroin and opioid abuse epidemic. These were announced during a major anti-addiction summit in Atlanta.

• Democrats still fighting for bipartisan anti-drug bill despite Republican's thumbs down of $600 million funding

  A bipartisan anti-drug bill may still be fighting for its political life despite the Republican's shooting down its proposed budget of $600 million.

• Heroin Dealers Tied to the Mexican Cartel Nabbed in NJ Hotel Drug Bust

  Four men, who are believed to be heroin dealers with ties to the Mexican cartel, were arrested at a New Jersey hotel. It is said to be one of the largest heroin busts in the history of New York.

• White House program to aim at combating rise in heroin deaths

  With a rise nationally in fatal heroin overdoses, the White House on Monday will announce a plan pairing law enforcement officials with public health workers in an effort to emphasize treatment rather than prosecution of addicts, the Washington Post said.

• Mexican kingpin's home town stunned by 'bad ass' escape

  In Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's home town, some thought they were dreaming and others shed tears of joy when they heard the drug lord had broken out of Mexico's top maximum security prison through a tunnel built into his cell.

• California governor blocks parole of ex-Mexican Mafia prison gang leader

  California Governor Jerry Brown blocked parole for a former leader of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who went on to become an informant for police, his office said on Friday.

• Over 100 arrested in New Orleans drugs sweep

  Federal prosecutors in New Orleans announced on Friday the arrest of over 100 suspects and the seizure of guns, drugs, cars and money in the culmination of a six-month undercover operation in New Orleans.

• U.S. indictment unsealed in San Diego against Sinaloa cartel members

  Federal prosecutors in San Diego unsealed 14 grand jury indictments on Friday against 60 members of Mexico's most powerful drug enterprise, the Sinaloa cartel, including many listed as among the group's leaders and top enforcers.

• Alleged head of Chicago branch of Mexican drug cartel arrested

  The alleged head of the Chicago-area branch of a Mexican drug cartel faces federal charges with seven others for a plot that involved carrying heroin and cocaine from Mexico to the United States in passenger buses, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

• Four arrested in Kenya over drug syndicate linked to U.S.

  Four people were arrested in Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa on suspicion of trafficking huge quantities of heroin to the United States, police said on Monday without giving the precise value or quantity of the drugs.

• Delaware mother charged after daughter brings heroin to daycare

  A Delaware mother was arrested on Monday after her four-year-old daughter unknowingly brought roughly 250 packets of heroin to her daycare, and passed them out to classmates thinking they were candy, police said.