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Kentucky Just Banned ‘Gas Station Heroin’

03.28.23

By Manisha Krishnan
News

‘Gas Station Heroin’ Was Just Banned in Ohio

01.04.23

By Manisha Krishnan
News

‘Gas Station Heroin’ Is Causing Intense Withdrawals. It’s Legal in Most States.

12.12.22

By Manisha Krishnan
News

Why Purdue Pharma’s Bankruptcy Won’t Save the Sacklers, the Billionaire Family Behind OxyContin

09.16.19

By Emma Ockerman
Health

Heroin Overdose Parties Are a Dehumanizing Myth

05.16.19

By Elizabeth Brico
Drugs

The World’s Other Opioid Crisis

04.05.19

By JS Rafaelli
News

The billionaire family behind OxyContin is finally having its moment of reckoning

03.22.19

By Emma Ockerman
Drugs

Australians Take $9 Billion Worth of Drugs a Year, According to Poo Samples

02.20.19

By Gavin Butler
News

Pharma reps bragged about opioid sales in parody video of A$AP Rocky’s “Fuckin’ Problems”

02.14.19

By Emma Ockerman
Health

What It’s Like to Detox in Jail

11.20.18

By Elizabeth Brico
News

The opioid crisis has caused life expectancy to drop in B.C.

10.24.18

By Steven Zhou
News

Canada signs on to U.S. “war on drugs” weeks before legalizing weed

09.25.18

By Tamara Khandaker

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