Heroin

Counterfeit Pills Are Becoming Deadlier in America

The percentage of overdose deaths linked to fake drugs has more than doubled in the U.S. between 2019 to 2021, according to new research from CDC scientists.

Health Ed Cara Sep 6

FBI Reportedly Investigates Fentanyl Distribution on Snapchat

Investigators are question what role Snaptchat's had in fentanyl-laced pills being distributed on its platform.

Tech News Nikki Main Jan 25

Experimental Vaccine Blocks Fentanyl From Rats’ Brains

A growing body of research is exploring immunotherapy as a way to treat addiction and prevent deadly overdoses.

Health Lauren Leffer Nov 16

Norway to Decriminalize Personal Purchase, Possession, and Use Of All Drugs In Small Quantities

The government of Norway is moving to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all recreational drugs as well as their use, including everything from weed and coke to heroin, per Bloomberg. The Norwegian health policy agency, the Ministry of Health and Care Services, sent legal proposals to legislators on Friday that would retain the illegal…

Health Tom McKay Feb 19

Psychedelic Mushrooms Grew in a Man’s Veins After He Injected Them

The man was hospitalized for 22 days but survived.

Health Ed Cara Jan 12

Alleged Drug Dealer Sentenced to Death by Hanging Via Zoom in Singapore

Singapore’s Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Strait Times. It’s believed to be the second time that a death sentence has been handed down this year over the video service, which has seen a dramatic increase in use since the global coronavirus…

Tech News Matt Novak May 20

Let People Take Home Their Methadone

The covid-19 pandemic is turning daily pick-ups into an acute public health crisis. There’s a better way. More than a week after President Donald Trump announced that public gatherings should be limited to no more than 10 people, a line was growing outside a methadone clinic in SoHo. More than two dozen people, some of…

Health Kastalia Medrano Mar 31

More People Are Inhaling Heroin, and It’s Destroying Brain Tissue

People living with opioid addiction are increasingly using the inhalation method to get high, warns a new review published Monday in JAMA Neurology. The technique known as “chasing the dragon,” which involves heating up heroin and inhaling its fumes through a pipe, may be safer in some ways than injection, but it comes with its…

Health Ed Cara Jul 9

What Would the Cops Look Like If You Lived in a Futuristic Authoritarian Police State?

I’d like you to imagine a crazy, far-out scenario for a moment. Close your eyes and try to picture what it would look like if you lived in a militarized police state with authoritarian tendencies. What do you see? I realize that this exercise is difficult for Americans who live in the land of the…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 10

Heroin Now Kills More People Than Guns In America

For the first time ever, deaths in America due to heroin overdose outnumber gun homicides. And before you ask, no, the number of gun homicides hasn’t been dropping. Good lord. The data, pulled from the CDC by the Washington Post, is dispiriting reminder of our nation’s worsening opiate epidemic, which was started by money-hungry drug…

Tech News Avery Ellis Dec 8

Why Russia’s Heroin Addicts Are Going Through Hell

This week, an HIV epidemic has been officially declared in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, where the health department estimates 1 out of every 50 residents is a carrier of the virus. The government has been hesitant to recognize that Russia is experiencing one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics. In May, the head of…

Tech News Emma Lantreev Nov 4

FDA Wants an App to Help Solve Opiate Overdoses

Among the many ways to combat a drug epidemic, an app competition is easily the strangest. Abuse of illegal and prescription opiates alike is a massive problem in the United States. Since 1999, deaths due to these substances has tripled. Overdoses can be reversed by administering Naloxone, but availability of the life-saving drug is spotty—some…

Tech News Avery Ellis Sep 19

Scientists Have Come Up With a ‘Vaccine’ Against Designer Drugs

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have just published the results of a study done on a special kind of vaccine in the journal Angewandte Chemie. This vaccine does not guard against a virus. Instead, it blocks the effects of synthetic designer drugs. Fentanyl is an opioid that moves from the blood to the brain,…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 16

NYPD to Carry Life-Saving Antidote Kits for Heroin Overdoses

The New York Police Department has announced that its officers are to start carrying antidote kits that will use a drug called naloxone to save the lives of heroin users who suffer overdose. The Associated Press reports that the NYPD will be provided with 19,500 kits, that contain two syringes and two inhalers of naloxone…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 28

There’s a New Drug Test That Can Beat the Poppy Seed Defense

Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine fails a drug test after eating a poppy seed bagel? Many modern pee-in-this-cup drug test can’t differentiate between the harmless opiates found in poppy seeds with the eye-rolling opiates found in black tar heroin—and it’s become a big problem. But a newly developed drug test is poised to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 8

Surgeon stole heroin out of a drug smuggler’s stomach

After removing capsules of heroin from a drug smuggler’s stomach, one Siberian surgeon walked off with a souvenir: five grams of the freshly liberated drug. The Guardian reports that after becoming ill on a train, a man acting as a drug mule was brought by police to a hospital in the small town of Bogotol,…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 17

What are the deadliest drugs in the United States?

Which drugs are actually killing Americans? Popular Science combed through overdose statistics from the CDC and turned the numbers into an infographic. Writes PopSci’s Katie Peek: Death reporting in the U.S. requires an underlying cause—the event or disease that lead to the death. This chart represents all those listed in the CDC database as “accidental…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 25

Three Delta Employees Charged Over $600,000 Drug Duffle

If you’re going to smuggle a half-million dollars worth for heroin and speed through Hartsfield-Jackson International, try not to forget it at baggage claim. People lose and forget bags at the airport all the time—hell, there’s even a reality show about the auctions airlines hold to move unclaimed bags. But when you’re attempting to move…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 4

The Cure for Drug Abuse? Changing People’s Memories

Even after drug users kick the habit, there’s still the risk of relapse. And a big reason for this is fact that the person can still remember the pleasurable side of drug use. The solution might be to actually change the nature of those memories. Top image: Shutterstock.com That’s the idea behind new research coming…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Apr 17

When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

There was a time when mothers gave their babies opium, people bought hallucinogens at the local bar, and anxious patriots sent hypodermic needles and cocaine to soldiers as a present. It was called The Great Binge, and it’s probably wrong to feel sad that it’s over. Today we have Bayer Aspirin. It relieves headaches. In…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 28

Heroin

Counterfeit Pills Are Becoming Deadlier in America

FBI Reportedly Investigates Fentanyl Distribution on Snapchat

Experimental Vaccine Blocks Fentanyl From Rats’ Brains

Norway to Decriminalize Personal Purchase, Possession, and Use Of All Drugs In Small Quantities

Psychedelic Mushrooms Grew in a Man’s Veins After He Injected Them

Alleged Drug Dealer Sentenced to Death by Hanging Via Zoom in Singapore

Let People Take Home Their Methadone

More People Are Inhaling Heroin, and It’s Destroying Brain Tissue

What Would the Cops Look Like If You Lived in a Futuristic Authoritarian Police State?

Heroin Now Kills More People Than Guns In America

Why Russia’s Heroin Addicts Are Going Through Hell

FDA Wants an App to Help Solve Opiate Overdoses

Scientists Have Come Up With a ‘Vaccine’ Against Designer Drugs

NYPD to Carry Life-Saving Antidote Kits for Heroin Overdoses

There’s a New Drug Test That Can Beat the Poppy Seed Defense

Surgeon stole heroin out of a drug smuggler’s stomach

What are the deadliest drugs in the United States?

Three Delta Employees Charged Over $600,000 Drug Duffle

The Cure for Drug Abuse? Changing People’s Memories

When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

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