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Brooklyn Drug Dealer Charged After Abandoning 4-Year-Old Son to Die From Fentanyl
Yitzchok “Isak” Sklar reportedly left his dying son in a family shelter while fleeing to hide his drug stash. Sklar and his drug supplier kept selling fentanyl after the boy’s death, and now face federal charges.
DRUGS
Nearly 1 in 4 Injured Drivers Test Positive for Drugs, Victoria Study Finds
A Monash University analysis of blood tests shows nearly a quarter of injured drivers had illicit drugs in their system. “It’s scary to all of us,” notes a public safety advocate on the rising trend of drugged driving.
DRUGS
Former Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding Captured After Leading International Cocaine Empire
After landing on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, Wedding was arrested in Mexico, ending a 10-month international manhunt for the accomplished snowboarder turned cocaine kingpin.
DRUGS
Record Ketamine Use Hospitalizes Children with Severe Bladder Damage Across Britain
Doctors report school-age patients suffering irreversible urological harm as holiday binge culture and cheap access fuel the spike in youth consumption.
DRUGS
“Feel Free” Sold in 30,000 Locations Across US Despite Federal Seizures, Organ Damage and Hospitalizations
Federal courts, costly class action litigation and safety alerts haven’t stopped Botanic Tonics from selling $250 million a year of a product that leaves addicts warning, “I thought I was going to die.”
DRUGS
NYC’s Safe Injection Sites See Rising Overdoses and Escalating Drug Use After Four Years
With daily visits up more than 100 percent and dozens of life-threatening overdoses linked to the centers, officials and residents are calling for shutdowns and a renewed focus on prevention.
DRUGS
Matthew Perry’s Doctor Sentenced Over His “Mistake” in Exploiting the Celebrity’s Addiction to Ketamine
“I wonder how much this moron will pay,” Salvador Plasencia cruelly joked—before supplying Perry the drugs that killed him.
DRUGS
LA County Orders Retailers to Pull Kratom After Spike in Deaths
A surge in overdoses tied to the synthetic compound 7-OH has triggered emergency action in Los Angeles County. Regulators warn that products sold as natural remedies mask opioid-like disasters.
DRUGS
Former Olympian Turned Drug Lord Ordered Witness Assassinated in Colombia
Prosecutors allege Ryan Wedding directed the hit to stop a federal witness from testifying about his transnational drug empire. Law enforcement calls him one of the most dangerous fugitives in the hemisphere.
DRUGS
Unpaid Storage Unit in Denver Reveals Record 198 Kilograms of Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills
A storage locker in Highlands Ranch hid a Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl stash worth an estimated $8 million, officials told Freedom.
DRUGS
Etomidate Crackdown Widens After Wave of Arrests and Rising Medical Emergencies
Bans on the anesthetic-turned-street-drug come amid seizures, hospitalizations and a trafficking pipeline stretching from India to Singapore to Okinawa.
DRUGS
TikTok-Fueled Inhalant “Chroming” Trend Tied to Tragic Death of Yet Another Child
A 12-year-old from Greater Manchester died while participating in a viral inhalant challenge—raising alarms over unchecked social media risks.
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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.
