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Fentanyl Positivity in Employees Jumps 707 Percent After Hiring
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.
DRUGS
Architect of Sinaloa Cartel Admits to Murders, Corruption and Flooding the US with Narcotics
The 75-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom—admitting to a murderous reign of trafficking, corruption and suffering that stretched across decades.
DRUGS
New Study Demonstrates Cannabis Causes Psychosis, Schizophrenia and Addiction
Once confined to the black market, ultra-potent marijuana is now mainstream—and research shows its dangers are anything but benign.
DRUGS
Studies Link Ozempic to Muscle Loss, Organ Damage and Blindness
With millions of Americans prescribed GLP-1 drugs, researchers warn of catastrophic risks ignored by Big Pharma.
DRUGS
Bribes and Hidden Compartments Keep Fentanyl Flowing Across the Border
Cartel operatives detail how fentanyl-laden cars slip past border agents, fueling an annual death toll of some 50,000 Americans.
DRUGS
How “Gas Station Heroin” Became America’s Next Opioid Crisis
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.
DRUGS
Hospitals Report Escalating Overdoses Linked to Drug Up to 300 Times Stronger Than Xylazine
Doctors warn that America faces a catastrophic new drug threat, as medetomidine—a veterinary sedative never meant for humans—spreads from coast to coast.
DRUGS
Honey Oil: The Explosive Cannabis Craze That’s Killing Workers
An unlicensed cannabis extraction operation kept running after workers died in fiery explosions. Six now face felony charges—including murder—in a case exposing the deadly cost of black-market profits.
DRUGS
Polly Wanna Crackhead? Drug Dealer’s Parrot Turns Snitch in Blackpool Raid
A £1 million drug network unraveled thanks to covert police work and incriminating pet parrot footage. Key gang members have been sentenced to decades in prison.
DRUGS
Congress Passes HALT Fentanyl Act to Permanently Classify Fentanyl Variants as Schedule I Drugs
The bill closes loopholes that allowed cartels to alter fentanyl formulas, sealing the legal gaps exploited for profit and death.
DRUGS
Granny by Day, Drug Lord by Night—How “Gangsta Debbs” Built an £80M Empire with Her Kids
She drew her children into crime and flooded her community with cocaine. Now Deborah Mason is trading Gucci for a prison cell.
DRUGS
Speedballing Fuels a Deadly Drug Trend Sweeping the US
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.
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.
