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While organized from prisons, these gangs cause harm that extends everywhere—with one gang trafficking enough fentanyl to kill everyone in Seattle-Tacoma, plus half a million more.

“Red-flag” study shows fentanyl and other drugs are making their way into our water and the creatures that use it… including us. 

One-year-old Nicholas Dominici died from ingesting the deadly opioid fentanyl at a day care center because the owner did not respect the infant’s right to life. It’s not the only example. Fentanyl is killing our kids. 

Arrests of law enforcement officers for drug-related crimes are frequent, but the dimensions are unknown because agencies refuse to study the problem in their ranks.

If fentanyl is big trouble, protonitazene is a flat-out monster. Estimated at 150 times stronger than heroin, its effects are only just beginning to be felt—in deaths.

Federal agents call the work of these illegal online pharmacies “dealing death,” and warn that the price of buying counterfeit drugs can be fatal. 

The FDA has played a substantial role in the crisis which takes some 222 lives each day, recklessly approving dangerous opioid drugs.

Xylazine, a veterinary sedative, is easily bought on the internet from overseas, but makes fentanyl even more deadly. The law is struggling to catch up.

While estimates suggest up to 20,000 lives are being saved, overdoses still claim some 100,000 lives a year, mostly from synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

As addiction rates soar, Scottish politicians pursue a path of making hardcore drug use easy—and they aren’t the only ones. “Drug consumption rooms” across Europe defy common sense and ignore real solutions to the scourge of abuse.