Drugs & Substance Abuse

Changes are coming to the Rapid City Care Campus. While adding cultural programming, officials say it comes at the cost of some safe beds at the facility.

There are 241 individuals serving time in South Dakota prisons whose highest crime is ingestion of a controlled substance. South Dakota is the only state in the nation with felony level ingestion.

Xylazine is now classified under the same group of controlled substances as epinephrine and ketamine.

Senate Bill 6, which would harden the state’s drug distribution laws in the event of a fatal overdose, has advanced from the Judiciary Committee.

Law enforcement agencies across South Dakota are collaborating to get potentially harmful drugs off the street.

Should ingestion of a controlled substance be a felony? The House Judiciary Committee is considering a proposal to change the charge. We listen in on the debate.

The Pennington County Sherriff’s Office reports an increase of the illegal street drug, fentanyl.Tony Harrison is a captain with the office and a state trustee for the South Dakota Fraternal Order of Police. He says Pennington County agents seized 12 grams of fentanyl in 2019. That jumped to 128 grams last year.

In The Moment ... September 26, 2017 Show 185 Hour 1U.S. Attorney for the district of South Dakota Randy Seiler provides opening and closing remarks this…

South Dakota authorities have taken 500-thousand dollars’ worth of a dangerous drug off the street. Tuesday Chamberlain Police and the state’s Division of…

South Dakotans can now report tips about illegal drugs through text messages. Project Stand Up is a statewide campaign that collects anonymous tips about…