centers for disease control and prevention

'Dramatic rise in deaths involving synthetic opioids'

'One of the largest seizures in the state'

'Close to 30 percent reductions'

'Exceeds the total number of all opioid overdose deaths in 2013'

'Putting Medicaid beneficiaries at risk'

'Suicide is always an option for us'

Cocaine is now killing roughly 13,000 Americans each year

'Close to about $500,000 worth of cocaine seized'

'Had an almost instant effect on him'

His two children are 3 and 6 years old

'Inmates are becoming more and more willing to risk introducing these drugs'

'We apologize for the errors'

'Disruptive technology to undermine U.S. tobacco’s reliable business'

'Vulnerable people suffering from addiction — and they see dollar signs'

'Built an empire on suffering'

'We’ve got a big problem in Ohio'

'Hold accountable the architects of this epidemic'

'Opioid overdose epidemic may be worse than it appears'

'Baby boomers are getting older and continuing to take drugs'

Heroin seizures along the border increased 73 percent in 2017