Opioids
The Rise of ‘Gas Station Heroin’
The supplement tianeptine, sold under brands like Zaza and Tianaa Red, is causing excruciating withdrawals, leaving people broke and even suicidal.
The DEA Shut Down a Pain Doctor. Now 3 People Are Dead.
After a California doctor was labeled an "imminent danger" to the public, the consequences were devastating for his patients and their families.
Scientists Are Making a Fentanyl Vaccine. It Won’t Solve the Overdose Crisis.
The vaccine would block people from feeling high from fentanyl.
Volunteers Are Smuggling Unlicensed Morphine to the Ukrainian Front Lines
More than six months after Russia invaded, Ukrainian troops are seeing shortages of essential battlefield medications and supplies.
FBI Arrest Police Union President, Investigating Alleged ‘Fake Fundraisers’
Harold "BJ" Sanders, the police union president in Bossier City, allegedly bought opioids on the criminal market.
Doctors Are Prescribing Fentanyl to Help People Addicted to Opioids
To stop overdoses, the British Columbia government is providing fentanyl patches and pills to people using street drugs.
A 13-Year-Old Died of a Fentanyl Overdose. Experts Say the Response Was ‘Theater.’
Students had to walk through an OxiClean solution and the school was shut down for a dayslong cleanup—measures addictions experts say don’t make sense.
Tucker Carlson Pumped Full of Fentanyl, Emerges With New Understanding of the Opioid Crisis
“I just thought that was the most interesting fucking thing that had ever happened to me,” he said after emergency back surgery.
When Opioids Are the Cure to Depression and Psychache
While an overdose epidemic tears through the U.S., some users have found that opioids work as antidepressants. Is there a safe way to use them?
Amid Record Overdose Deaths, Canada’s North Opens First Safe Drug Consumption Site
Yukon had Canada’s highest overdose death rate in the first quarter of 2021.
Russia Has an Opioid Crisis Too – One of Untreated Pain
The groundbreaking work of one woman is helping Russian children in intense pain, and humanising healthcare in a country where historical and cultural legacies loom large.