A medical examiner's report shows a heroin overdose caused the death of Georgia Tech pitcher Michael Hutts.

Orange County authorities say they won't file charges against a high school teacher they believe was framed in a drug bust by his own wife.

A man charged with murder at age 11 who spent the rest of his childhood in custody was arrested Friday on a drug charge after undercover officers allegedly caught him selling at a gas station, police said.

Afghanistan will ask international donors next month for $4 billion to revive its agricultural sector, but it could be a hard sell with another massive crop of opium expected this year.

Despite the sharply rising price of grain, foreign-funded efforts to promote legal alternatives to the narcotic have largely failed.

Farmers still make much more from growing poppy, the raw material for heroin, which flourishes amid Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency and rampant lawlessness. Half of the country's production comes from Helmand province, a stronghold of insurgents.

The United States needs to do more to help Mexico battle narcotics gangs, since Mexican police are dying in a war fueled largely by U.S. drug consumption, Mexico's president said Thursday.