A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.

The emergency declaration is emblematic of the federal response to the opioid crisis: a good idea that’s not enough.

Representative Pete King (R-N.Y.) in an interview that aired Monday on "Rising" said that the issue of drug trafficking across the southern border is not getting enough attention in the public eye, despite more focus on the growing opioid crisis in the U.S.

Our comprehensive strategy for the opioid crisis, grounded in the best science and evidence we have, is starting to show results.

First lady Melania Trump emphasized protecting the “most vulnerable” on Monday, issuing a statement in support of new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) information on accessing state help for treating babies born to opioid-addicted mothers.

President Trump recently told reporters he will likely support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, which could finally help cut through the red tape blocking scientists from conducting large-scale trials on the benefits of medical marijuana in cancer patients.

I need to disclose two very private facts. They are not causally related. First, when I was in my mid-teens, my girlfriend had an abortion. Second, I am an occasional user of pain management drugs such as morphine and oxycodone, which I typically acquire through illicit markets on the dark web. These two experiences — the abortion and my use of opioids — illustrate some paradoxes in the American politics of the body. Let me provide a few additional details about each confession in order to provide a context for my later description of the paradoxes.

On September 8, 2017, former Fox News TV host and author Eric Bolling got a phone call telling him his son, Eric Chase, had died of an accidental drug overdose.

Bolling says he and his wife "never saw it coming."

The White House convened a summit on the opioid epidemic Thursday, where first lady Melania Trump said she is proud of the what the administration has already accomplished on the issue, but that "we all know there is much work still to be done."

US life expectancy fell last year for a second year running for the first time in more than half a century, reportedly driven by the worsening opioid crisis.