Trump Administration Is Reportedly Looking to Allow the Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

The Trump administration may introduce legislation that seeks the death penalty for drug dealers.

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 DEA Now Thinks Kratom Is as Dangerous as Heroin

Back in June, Gizmodo reported on kratom’s growing popularity in the US among sufferers of chronic pain and opiate addicts trying to get clean. Now the plant’s time as a self-medication agent may be coming to an end.

Elephant Sedatives Are Latest Strange Twist in America’s Heroin Epidemic

Some deaths in a rash of recent drug overdoses in the United States are now being attributed to an elephant sedative being sold to heroin users.

A VACCINE THAT MAKES YOUR BODY DESTROY OPIOIDS

The U.S. is currently embroiled in an opioid epidemic—the drugs were involved in 28,647 deaths in 2014, up 200 percent from the year 2000. And while researchers have developed painkillers that are harder to abuse andmedications that reduce the effects of opioids once a person has overdosed, there is currently nothing on the market to stop opioids’ effects altogether. Now a team of researchers is hoping to change that.

How A Life Unravels On Heroin

Raquel Rodriguez paces around her cramped East Boston apartment, chain-smoking Newports in the early evening darkness.

Her two daughters race toy shopping carts across the living room, shrieking with delight as they clatter past.

FDA Approves OxyContin For Kids Despite Concerns

The U.S. Food and Drug Association approved the painkiller OxyContin for children ages 11 to 16 with pain “severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment,” according to a statement released on Aug. 14.

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