Addiction specialists and others testified on drug use, suicide risk, and solutions for mental health treatment before the House Ways and Means Committee. Among the topics discussed were…
90 viewsMembers of the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a report on the progress of their work in the region and to make recommendations…
348 viewsFollowing a briefing at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Florida, President Trump delivered remarks on the command’s enhanced counternarcotics operations, and on law enforcement. He said in his remarks…
1,637 viewsPresident Trump participated in a briefing on counternarcotics at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Florida. This program is incomplete due to technical difficulties.
1,150 viewsBrown University’s Peter Andreas talked about the relationship between six drugs - alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine - and war.
835 viewsDuncan Wood talked about efforts by the U.S. and Mexico to battle Mexican drug cartels.
606 viewsSenators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) convened a hearing on how the U.S. can better aid international narcotics control efforts. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and panel…
569 viewsPresident Trump issued an emergency order to ground all of Boeing’s max planes until further notice. The U.S. joined several other countries to ground these aircraft after a deadly crash in…
1,718 viewsAuthor and former DEA agent Jack Riley detailed the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin El Chapo and the rise of modern international drug trafficking.
1,410 viewsVice President Mike Pence delivered remarks to directors and deputy directors of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program.
442 viewsProPublica senior reporter Ginger Thompson talked about her story, “The Making of a Massacre,” about an attack on a small Mexican town by the Zetas drug cartel.
1,741 viewsHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before a Senate committee on her department’s policies concerning a range of issues. Among them were drug trafficking at the southern border…
6,312 viewsSteve Murphy and Javier Peña, the former DEA agents who inspired the Netflix series “Narcos,” discussed investigating Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and how their experience relates to…
502 viewsCurrent and former executives from drug distribution companies testified at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on their role in the opioid crisis and how to stem the flow of…
1,903 viewsInvestigate journalist Melissa Del Bosque took viewer phone calls and tweets on drug cartels and the U.S.-Mexico border at the 10th annual Tucson Festival of Books.
524 viewsJim Walden, the attorney for the Russian doctor who led and later publicly disclosed a state-run sports doping program, spoke about his client’s experience at an event hosted by the U.S.…
606 viewsThe Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on the opioid epidemic and ways drug traffickers exploit the U.S. and…
1,347 viewsHipolito Acosta, author of Deep in the Shadows, Melissa del Bosque, author of Bloodlines, and Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, author of Los Zetas Inc., talked about drug cartels in Mexico,…
1,082 viewsJoe Tone talked about his book Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream, in which he reports on the lives of the Trevino brothers and their rise and fall in the Zeta drug…
678 viewsVice President Mike Pence spoke at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. about the Trump administration’s policy toward Central America and the issues confronting it, including drug…
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