Fentanyl

A recent meeting between President's Biden and Xi focused on the enormous (and growing) fentanyl crisis in the U.S., which is being fueled by the export of the drug to Mexico, where it is illegally trafficked into the US.

For those of you who don't follow the details of the so-called "opioid crisis" (finally being appropriately named the fentanyl crisis), some of the terms, names, and groups (like PROP) may be unfamiliar. Here's a primer.  

    More than 90 Chinese companies openly sell fentanyl precursor to any willing buyer. Since 2018, cryptocurrency has been used to pay between $27 and $37 million for these materials.

Today the Biden Administration declared that fentanyl laced with xylazine (“tranq”) is an “emerging threat.” In Februar

I recently wrote that PROP President Andrew Kolodny's off-the-cuff remark about controlling the latest and arguably worst&

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that recreational drug users

There are precisely two things you can do with a bottle of 4-anilino-N-phenethylpiperidine, aka, 4-ANPP – a chemical that has been in the

A 67-year-old man with head and neck cancer who received radiation treatment two weeks earlier was admitted to a palliative care center for treatment of severe pain caused by a massive fungal infection in and around his throat.&nbsp

A group at the University of Houston has discovered a vaccine that blunts the effect of fentanyl in mice, making it a potential tool for combating the deadly fentanyl overdose epidemic that c

Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and chemistry Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom as they break down these stories on episode 18 of the Science Dispatch podcast: