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UN Report Details Global Killing Power of New Synthetic Opioids

As much as 2,000 times stronger than heroin, synthetics are fueling an epidemic of death.

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Drugs and Murder Go Hand in Hand, New UK Stats Reveal

Some 56 percent of all 570 homicides in England and Wales were related to drugs—highlighting the ineffectiveness of the “harm reduction” model.

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Olympic Snowboarder Turned Drug Lord Is Now Wanted Internationally

Ryan Wedding’s story starts as an Olympian, but ends as a wanted fugitive. When found, he faces life in prison—the price of a wasted life. 

DRUGS

Forty-Five-Year Sentence For Day Care Operator Who Killed One-Year-Old With Fentanyl

“Day care” was just a front for a fentanyl operation. Three other children required Narcan to survive. 

DRUGS

Animal Trafficking for Fentanyl—New “Dragon Cartel” Unites Mexican and Chinese Gangs

A most unusual trade in rare fish will lead to misery and death, while an endangered species may disappear entirely. 

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UK’s First “Consumption Room” Now Open—Europe Surrenders War on Drugs

While drugs and their use remain illegal, law enforcement has abrogated their responsibilities by providing free shooting dens rather than rehabilitation.

DRUGS

Drug Trafficker Used Social Media to Ensnare Youth in His Crimes

Now sentenced to a decade in prison, this Washington man used Snapchat to recruit young drug couriers, showing off his luxurious lifestyle—one built on human misery.

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American Lab Rats—New Study Shows Big Pharma Weight-Loss Drugs Cause Blindness

Six percent of Americans have used Ozempic, Wegovy and similar drugs. They’re unwitting experimental subjects.

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Numbers Don’t Lie: New Study Confirms Cannabis Kills

A Canadian study, released this month, revealed that marijuana addicts died at almost three times the rate of non-addicts.

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Poison-Peddling Chinese Execs Convicted & Jailed in Landmark Fentanyl Case

A House select committee found Chinese companies produce nearly all of “the key ingredients that drive the global illicit fentanyl trade.” But it’s the first time US authorities have prosecuted them.

DRUGS

New Research Finds Dangerous Psychedelic Drugs Misrepresented by Psychiatry

With profit as the most obvious motive, psychiatry is pushing dangerous psychedelic drugs at every turn. New research studies are pushing back.

DRUGS

Epidemic of Flesh-Eating “Tranq” May Be Worse Than Fentanyl

Xylazine is a super-powerful horse tranquilizer that’s cheaper than fentanyl, and often mixed with the drug. It’s a deadly combination. 

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DRUGS

The Opioid Dossier

“The Opioid Dossier” chronicles a yearlong investigation by Associate Editor Michael Brennan into a deadly drug epidemic—spawned by America’s pharmaceutical industry. His in-depth report follows.

THE OPIOID DOSSIER

Almost Heaven, Almost Hell

In West Virginia’s natural paradise pain pills paved a road to perdition.

THE OPIOID DOSSIER

Lawyer

A Southern lawyer tells how we got here, and how he hopes to use a forgotten state law to rescue the country from the opioid epidemic.