TAG / DRUGS

Tracking 460,000 teens with no prior mental health problems, researchers found those who used cannabis faced sharply higher rates of serious psychiatric diagnoses by young adulthood.

A Monash University analysis of blood tests shows nearly a quarter of injured drivers had illicit drugs in their system. “It’s scary to all of us,” notes a public safety advocate on the rising trend of drugged driving.

Bans on the anesthetic-turned-street-drug come amid seizures, hospitalizations and a trafficking pipeline stretching from India to Singapore to Okinawa.

Police arrest 246 sex crime suspects in a week-long sting, including repeat offenders seeking to exploit minors as young as 12.

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

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

Smugglers are stuffing meth, heroin and cocaine into shipments of vegetables, cheese and fruit. The strategy exploits perishable goods to evade inspection.

A new lawsuit claims staff ignored obvious signs of child sex trafficking to keep rooms filled and cash flowing.

“I wonder how much this moron will pay,” wrote Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who now faces 40 years for supplying the actor with ketamine.

Coordinated across four continents, Operation RapTor dismantled a darknet drug empire, seizing enough fentanyl to kill 71.5 million.