US President Donald Trump has declared the opioid crisis in the United States a “public health emergency."

Mobs have rampaged across a north Indian state, leaving 32 people dead and more than 250 others injured, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers.

The US president has declared the country’s opioid drugs epidemic a “national emergency.”

The US government doesn't know how to address the problem of opioid addiction in an effective way, says an American journalist.

The US president is not declaring a national emergency over the intensifying opioid crisis but vows to beat the plague.

Just in 2015, 33,000 people in the US died of overdoses from prescription drugs such as OxyContin.

The European Union delegation to Manila says the Philippines will no longer accept grants from the EU following its criticism of his trademark drug war.

More than 33,000 people across the US died in 2015 from opioid overdoses, 10 times the level in 1971 when the "War on Drug" was launched.

New figures by the US government show the rate of fatal drug overdoses in the United States more than doubled since 1999.

A total of 3,674 people in the UK died of drug poisoning in 2015, the highest number since records began.