California voters will soon decide whether to reclassify certain theft and drug penalties under Proposition 36.

The Sacramento County Sheriff is expected to address on Thursday the issues of fentanyl and drugs in jails. Last September, ...

A drug dealer who sold a fentanyl-laced pill is liable for $5.8 million in the death of the woman to whom he sold it.

"Had Jimenez sold pizza that he laced with arsenic, he would hardly be able to escape criminal responsibility for a resulting ...

Attorney for the family of Alexandra Capelouto, the woman whose death inspired the proposed Alexandra’s Law, calls the ...

What the 20-year-old sold her instead were counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that can be ...

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrested 57-year-old Mark Brents and booked him into the Orient Road Jail—the 75 th ...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is closing two of its offices in China, a move that comes even as the agency ...

A pilot program launched in San Francisco earlier this year is providing outreach to help fentanyl users on the city's ...

Nearly 75,000 Americans, including 6,850 Californians, died of fentanyl overdoses last year. But only a few politicians have ...

An industrial chemical used in plastic products has been cropping up in illegal drugs from California to Maine.