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Psilocybin Linked to Long-Term Harms in New Mothers, Researchers Warn

A drug touted as a cure-all was shown to damage mothers and children, exposing serious risks behind the hype.

DRUGS

Drug-Soaked “Attorney” Correspondence Triggers Overdoses and Federal Prosecutions in Prisons

From Ohio to California, authorities confront a nationwide underground trade exploiting attorney-client protections to smuggle deadly drugs into correctional facilities.

DRUGS

Interpol Seizes $6.5 Billion in Record Global Drug Bust, Exposing a Worldwide Drug Empire

In a two-week sweep spanning 18 nations, Operation Lionfish-Mayag exposed the scale and sophistication of international drug cartels.

DRUGS

The Stakes Are Sky-High: Flawed FAA Screening Lets Drugged Pilots Slip By

Despite thousands of suspected falsifications, the FAA’s drug testing program flags almost no pilots. The result: impaired aviators commanding commercial flights.

DRUGS

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.

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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.