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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.
DRUGS
Darknet Drug Gang Selling Heroin Online—Delivered in Stuffed Animals—Receive Prison Sentences
Part of an epidemic of online drug sales, the “rickandmortyshop” brought death by mail. Now the leader is in federal prison for eight years—but it’s a drop in the bucket.
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New Synthetic Opioid, Three Times Stronger Than Fentanyl, Causing Another Round of Mayhem
If fentanyl is big trouble, protonitazene is a flat-out monster. Estimated at 150 times stronger than heroin, its effects are only just beginning to be felt—in deaths.
DRUGS
Some 1 in 3 Americans Harmed by Loved Ones’ Use of Alcohol or Drugs
A study by the Alcohol Research Group shows 160 million collateral damage victims of substance abuse, including traffic accidents, vandalism, physical harm, financial issues and family or marriage problems.
DRUGS
Psychiatrists & Corporate Pushers Behind Failed Attempts to Saturate US with Psychedelic Drugs
They failed, and despite hundreds of millions in spending, every pro-drug initiative in the US went down to defeat this year. America understands the scourge of drugs better than the pushers.
DRUGS
San Francisco Will Pay Addicts Not to Do Drugs, Thanks to Just-Passed Measure
San Francisco tries everything to slow drug use … except the one thing proven to work. Deaths have tripled as a result.
DRUGS
“Give Me Half a Gram of Meth and You Can Take My Daughter”—Oklahoma Woman Arrested
A shocking story encapsulates the inhumanity drugs induce when a mother gives her daughter away … to her dealer. The little girl is still missing.
DRUGS
California Surrenders to Dangerous Psilocybin, Ignores the Law
Classed by the DEA with the same designation as LSD and heroin, mind-altering psilocybin is being sold illegally in California, which has abandoned enforcement of the law.
DRUGS
Illegal Counterfeit Pill Operations Killing Their Customers
Federal agents call the work of these illegal online pharmacies “dealing death,” and warn that the price of buying counterfeit drugs can be fatal.
DRUGS
California Just Seized $350 Million Worth of Pot. But It’s a Drop in the Bucket.
Illegal pot is now stronger and easier to find than ever. And it shows no signs of slowing down. There’s only one thing that can stop it.
DRUGS
Called a Public Health Catastrophe, Regulatory Failures Fuel an Overall 24 Percent Increase in Overdose Deaths
The FDA has played a substantial role in the crisis which takes some 222 lives each day, recklessly approving dangerous opioid drugs.
FROM THE MAGAZINE
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.