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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.

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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.

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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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Europe Flooded by Ecuadorian Cocaine Through Unlikely Albanian Connection

More than $12 billion in cocaine is flooding Europe through an alliance between South American gangs and an Albanian criminal network.

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McKinsey Consulting Agrees to Pay $650 Million for Role in Opioid Crisis

According to the DOJ, this is the first time a management consulting firm has been held criminally responsible for advice resulting in the commission of a crime by a client—in this case, Purdue.

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Fish Hooked on Drugs Bodes Ill for Humans

“Red-flag” study shows fentanyl and other drugs are making their way into our water and the creatures that use it… including us. 

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So-Called “Legal” Cannabis Often Covered in Illegal Pesticides, Tests Show

The effect of undeclared pesticides are multiplied when found in dangerous cannabis, which is combusted on use, and burrows deep into human lungs. 

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Shocking Child Fentanyl Death in Day Care Exposes Drug Dealer’s Indifference 

One-year-old Nicholas Dominici died from ingesting the deadly opioid fentanyl at a day care center because the owner did not respect the infant’s right to life. It’s not the only example. Fentanyl is killing our kids. 

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Pharmaceutical Mole aka VA Under Secretary Pushes Ecstasy on Our Nation’s Vets

Shereef Elnahal, Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has a history of financial ties to a pharmaceutical company deeply involved in Ecstasy research. No wonder he keeps pushing for wider acceptance of the deadly drug. 

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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.