fentanyl
Sewage Samples Reveal the Dutch, Australians Are Biggest Users of Synthetic Drugs
Study of wastewater around the 2019-20 New Year period reveals who is consuming which new psychoactive substances.
China Turns Blind Eye To Lucrative Cartel Chemical Trade, DEA Says
Agency experts tell VICE World News that China and Mexico are not doing enough to help stem the global trade in the chemicals used to make fentanyl and meth.
Facebook Spread the Myth That Touching Fentanyl Makes You Overdose, Study Finds
There are real-world consequences to misleading stories about the powerful opiate.
COVID-19 Could Make 2020 Canada's Worst Year for Overdoses
Data obtained by VICE News shows at least 2,450 Canadians have died this year, in part because of lockdown measures and an unstable drug supply.
Changes to a New Kind of Drug Smuggling Are Harming Mexico's Opioid Users
Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, tighter border controls have stopped the smuggling of life-saving medicine into Mexico.
How a Pharma Giant Flooded the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation With Opioids
Exclusive data shows drug distributor McKesson supplied the vast majority of painkillers to Native American communities across the U.S. during the opioid epidemic.
Justin Trudeau Won’t Decriminalize Drugs, Despite Record Overdose Deaths in B.C.
B.C. Premier John Horgan has called on the prime minister to decriminalize all drugs.
The US Just Had Its Deadliest Year for Overdose Deaths
And experts expect this year to be even worse.
Confessions of a Chinese Fentanyl Trafficker: ‘I’m Really Afraid of Hurting People’
We arranged a meeting in Shanghai with a synthetic-drug merchant for our podcast “Painkiller: America’s Fentanyl Crisis.”
How Racism Fuels the Fentanyl Crisis in America
Our new podcast “Painkiller: America’s Fentanyl Crisis” explores how overdose deaths are linked to racism and a broken healthcare system.
Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Fentanyl Smuggling Operations
We shadowed cartel members in Mexico along every step of the fentanyl supply chain.
Activists in Vancouver Gave Out Free Cocaine to Highlight Overdose Crisis
Organizers called out the B.C. government for allowing drug users to die in record numbers while pouring resources into its COVID-19 response.