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Doctors report school-age patients suffering irreversible urological harm as holiday binge culture and cheap access fuel the spike in youth consumption.

Federal courts, costly class action litigation and safety alerts haven’t stopped Botanic Tonics from selling $250 million a year of a product that leaves addicts warning, “I thought I was going to die.”

With daily visits up more than 100 percent and dozens of life-threatening overdoses linked to the centers, officials and residents are calling for shutdowns and a renewed focus on prevention.

Long‑term use of common psychiatric drugs like Xanax and Valium can trigger a newly recognized condition that leaves users with years of fatigue, anxiety and cognitive damage.

“I wonder how much this moron will pay,” Salvador Plasencia cruelly joked—before supplying Perry the drugs that killed him.

A 12-year-old from Greater Manchester died while participating in a viral inhalant challenge—raising alarms over unchecked social media risks.

From billing dead patients to defrauding entire communities, the mental health industry’s addiction to Medicaid dollars has become a national crisis.

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.

Fourteen police chiefs warn that today’s turbocharged cannabis is fueling psychosis, crime and death and are demanding it be reclassified as one of Britain’s most dangerous drugs.

Youth ketamine use has tripled in a decade as fatal complications and organ failure rise. UK officials may reclassify the drug after mounting deaths and public health warnings.