TAG / OPIOIDS

Far cheaper than cocaine and once considered a “safe high,” ketamine used with other drugs killed nearly 200 in Britain last year alone.

From smoke shops to health food stores, highly addictive kratom formulas exploit legal loopholes, putting communities across the US in danger.

Fentanyl-stimulant overdose deaths among seniors have soared 9,000 percent in eight years as fentanyl increasingly appears in cocaine and meth.

Fentanyl’s rapid clearance from the body allows workers to pass initial tests—leaving offices, warehouses and job sites exposed to employees impaired by the nation’s deadliest opioid.

Cartel operatives detail how fentanyl-laden cars slip past border agents, fueling an annual death toll of some 50,000 Americans.

From gummies to wrongful death lawsuits, the billion-dollar rise of “gas station heroin” is colliding with bans, bereaved families and the FDA’s harshest crackdown yet.

Doctors warn that America faces a catastrophic new drug threat, as medetomidine—a veterinary sedative never meant for humans—spreads from coast to coast.

The bill closes loopholes that allowed cartels to alter fentanyl formulas, sealing the legal gaps exploited for profit and death.

Speedballing is the cartel’s newest formula for addiction—and for death. Some 35,000 Americans die each year from fatal drug cocktails mixing opioids and stimulants.

Purdue prepares to pay up, leaving unanswered questions about justice, accountability and how hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved if regulators had acted sooner.