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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.
DRUGS
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.
DRUGS
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.
DRUGS
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.
DRUGS
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.
DRUGS
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.
DRUGS
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.
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.
