Fourteen people are charged with running two drug rings in Seattle, with eleven arrests made, as officials dismantled ...

A sentence for trafficking millions of dollars worth of fentanyl in King County is seen by some as no more than a slap on the ...

The city of Seattle passed a drug ordinance in September ... and public safety approach to the fentanyl and synthetic drug ...

Are you kidding me? This is the most fantasized assessment of Seattle’s drug epidemic I’ve ever seen. In actuality, we are spiraling toward complete social meltdown here, and Nicholas Kristof ...

This “shadow epidemic” has been one of Seattle’s worst public health debacles. More Seattleites died of drug overdoses in a single year in 2023 (763) than have died of COVID-19 in the city ...

SEATTLE — Seattle business owners and residents ... Third avenue is a street at the center of the drug epidemic in the city. “I think sometimes, when there are consequences, people do take ...

The drug epidemic just keeps maddeningly expanding ... It acknowledged there’s a connection between substance abuse and Seattle’s homelessness crisis (which seems like progress).

“The Seattle area recently experienced ... direct line of accountability between the drug maker of OxyContin to illegal abuse that helped spawn the epidemic. The opioid was being sold by clinics ...

“The epidemic of drug use is killing Seattle residents and depriving the public of spaces intended to be safe for everyone," Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison said in a statement. "We will not ...

“I don’t see that there’s this new epidemic, because it’s always been there,” he said. “To me the crisis is one person dying of an overdose. … “The thing that’s killing drug ...

One of them, fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin, has spurred the deadliest drug epidemic in American ... which includes Seattle. According to the CDC, other states that reported ...