Heroin

WASHINGTON — The arrest of two suspected drug dealers has led to the seizure of a cache of weapons, millions of dollars of heroin and a Maserati, District and federal officials announced Friday.

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested two people in connection with a large seizure of illegal guns and drugs. Officers seized more than 88 pounds of heroin in the bust, making it the largest heroin seizure in D.C.-area history,…

For the past four years, the nation's capital has undergone its worst public-health crisis since the arrival of AIDS: an explosion of fatal drug overdoses among African Americans.

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