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This Dangerous Drug Amplifies the Effects of Deadly Fentanyl, Yet It’s Legal and Easy to Obtain
Xylazine, a veterinary sedative, is easily bought on the internet from overseas, but makes fentanyl even more deadly. The law is struggling to catch up.
DRUGS
US Overdose Deaths Decrease for the First Time in Five Years
While estimates suggest up to 20,000 lives are being saved, overdoses still claim some 100,000 lives a year, mostly from synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
DRUGS
Debate Rages Over Taxpayer-Funded Drug Galleries in Europe, as Governments Surrender the War on Drugs
As addiction rates soar, Scottish politicians pursue a path of making hardcore drug use easy—and they aren’t the only ones. “Drug consumption rooms” across Europe defy common sense and ignore real solutions to the scourge of abuse.
DRUGS
Over 1,500 Kids Dead in a Year from Fentanyl—and You Won’t Believe How Dealers Are Finding Them
Each day, 150 Americans die due to synthetic opioids, ordered as easily as pizza using social media platforms, whose owners deny liability. The Department of Justice thinks the time is ripe for change.
DRUGS
Oregon Decriminalized—and Is Now Recriminalizing—Drug Possession. Why Aren’t They Prioritizing Prevention?
On Overdose Awareness Day, the number two state in the country in substance abuse hunted for new answers—but education didn’t seem to be one of them.
DRUGS
First-Ever Criminal Charges Filed Against Drug Company Executives Over Opioid Crisis
New York company to pay $20 million in penalties; two executives facing life in prison over charges of intentionally trafficking in millions of pain pills and defrauding the DEA.
DRUGS
Inundating Small Towns With Opioids
In a single year, from 2008 to 2009, Miami-Luken’s shipments of opioid pills to Williamson increased threefold.
DRUGS
Post Office and State Department Blamed for Opioids in the Mail
Senators condemn the drug trade, but have put the Postal Service in their sights because they have jurisdiction over it.
DRUGS
Navigating the Pill Factory
On January 1, Nevada’s new Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Act (AB-474) kicked in, and already doctors in the state are complaining.
DRUGS
New Lawsuit Could Open the Floodgates on the Sackler Family
In perhaps the most horrifying statistic of this 21st century, nearly 200,000 people have died from prescription opioid overdoses since 2000.
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.
