The US Justice Department announced Tuesday the indictment of two Chinese producers of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that causes a rising share of the country’s 60,000-plus annual overdose deaths.
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Capsules of CBD, THC, and the herbal painkiller kratom are part of a DIY harm reduction effort that police aren’t planning to shut down.
US border officials searched her phone, finding a story about how she almost died after ingesting fentanyl she thought was cocaine.
The 15,000-person dance party known as Shambhala is using a mass spectrometer to detect trace amounts of opioids this weekend.
As part of VICE’s special series on harm reduction, we asked music festival-goers how concerned they are about laced drugs and how they keep themselves safe.
Ted Stanley, the man behind the contentious fentanyl lollipop, passed away on July 13 due to complications arising from prostate cancer, reports the Washington Post. The professor of anesthesiology at the University of Utah helped mainstream the use of fentanyl in the medical field. Fentanyl is a drug 100 times stronger than morphine and is […]
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Brain damage, paralysis, and organ failure are just a few of the lasting problems some OD survivors take with them.
