Fentanyl Chemistry 101. Fentanyl is a synthetic drug. That means it’s not created from plants like marijuana or cocaine, but rather entirely from chemicals.

President Donald Trump said in an interview this week he believes President Joe Biden or his son, Hunter Biden, left cocaine in the White House in 2023.

Cocaine plant. The drug is made from the leaves of the coca plant, ... Stronger, more frequent doses cause long-term changes in brain chemistry. Your body and mind begin to rely on the drug.

Pink is the new white – at least in the international, dynamic domain of synthetic drugs. A potent powder known among users and traffickers as "pink cocaine" is gaining traction in the United ...

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

The length of time cocaine stays in a person’s system depends on the dosage, how often a person uses it, and other factors. Cocaine has a shorter half-life than other drugs, though. A shorter ...

The cocaine trade is far bigger and more geographically diverse than at any other point in history. Here’s how drug cartels are evading authorities using semi-submersibles to deliver shipments ...