Leaders across the region are thought to have been spurred into action, at least in part, by the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from Caracas in a lightning strike US military ...

After a two-year critical review, the WHO has decided to retain the coca leaf in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Despite finding no evidence of meaningful public health harms, the Expert ...

Cocaine has roared back worldwide, thanks to escalated coca cultivation and user demand. It has brought with it global overdose deaths.

Handout picture released by the Colombian Presidency press office showing Colombian President Gustavo Petro (L) and his counterpart, US President Donald Trump, meeting at the White House in Washington ...

Cocaine is staging a record-breaking global comeback. NPR reports that after years of decline, the world is now experiencing a historic boom in cocaine supply—one that researchers say has cut prices ...

Cocaine production in Colombia has surged after policy changes in 2015 allowed coca cultivation to thrive. The post How ...

NBER study links Colombia's record coca surge to 1,000–1,500 extra US overdose deaths yearly and $10 billion in damages.

Several of Jeffrey Epstein's emails revealed that he had an interest in potentially toxic plants that eliminated a person's free will and did not show up in a toxicology report.

Emails linked to Epstein from 2014 and 2015 show him referencing “trumpet plants” and articles on scopolamine.

Cocaine has made a roaring comeback, and it's having some big negative effects in the U.S. and around the world.

DELANO, Calif. (KERO) — Kern County Sheriff's deputies seized 55 pounds of methamphetamine and 100 gallons of liquid meth during a drug bust at a rural farm property west of Delano. The operation also ...