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Abbott directed the Department of Public Safety to boost efforts to collect intelligence on cartels and investigate gangs in Texas that support drug and human smuggling.

The ruling came nearly six months after Griner was detained. Russia has indicated that any potential deal or prisoner swap to secure her release would have to wait until after a verdict in her case.

A 90-day undercover effort to take guns off the streets of southeast Dallas has led to 47 arrests and the seizure of more than 100 firearms and $1.8 million in cash, Dallas police and federal officials said Thursday.

The portrait of the opioid epidemic has long been painted as a rural white affliction, but the demographics have been shifting for years as deaths surged among Black Americans.

A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.

Drug laws are the same all across Texas, but enforcement varies from county to county. And in Tarrant County, District Attorney Sharen Wilson says rehabilitation is a better way to deal with drugs.

The Tarrant County District Attorney wants to make it easier people caught with a small amount of marijuana to get their charges dismissed. The idea, DA Sharen Wilson said Monday, is to encourage sobriety and rehabilitation.

A nationwide push to relax drug laws took a significant step forward Tuesday as five more states legalized marijuana for adults and voters made Oregon the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

As hospitals scour the country for scarce ventilators to treat critically ill patients stricken by the new coronavirus, pharmacists are beginning to sound…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said agents at an Arizona port of entry uncovered over 254 pounds of fentanyl and nearly 395 pounds of methamphetamine in the trailer.

The ability to detect if someone is under the influence of alcohol or some kind of drug is important for many workplaces, for police in keeping…

From Texas Standard . Texas has been fighting to keep a secret for years now – the name of the pharmacy that supplies its execution drugs. But late last...