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About 780 new psychoactive substances were added to the list from 2011 to 2014. The drug-makers avoided all the bans by making slight changes to the drugs. In the autumn of 2014, more than 2000 Spice consumers in Russia sought medical attention, 1000 were admitted to hospitals, and 40 people died. [146]
Marketed under the names spice, spike, flamingo, or K2 — this underground drug has become one of the most inexpensive and dangerous ways to get high, reports say. Videos surfacing online have ...
Melange (/ m eɪ ˈ l ɑː n ʒ / [1]), often referred to as "the spice", is the fictional psychedelic drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert and derivative works. In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives the user a longer life span, greater ...
The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. [1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin.
A school district in southeastern Kentucky has asked businesses to guard against selling vape pens to minors after students in a nearby county got sick from using vape pens that may have contained ...
An expert said the mix of several powerful opioids is "one of the scariest combinations" she's seen in nearly 20 years.
These changes caused drugs made with tetrazole to be contaminated with N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), which cause genetic damage and cancer. [20] This contamination was not detected until 2018. The incident, according to medicinal chemist and pharmaceutical industry blogger Dr. Derek Lowe, points to a greater ...
Maples recovered from the infection but was diminished, her family says. She died Feb. 4, 2012, after choking to death from a mucus obstruction that clogged her airway, an autopsy concluded. Maples' family believes the Vitas’ drug regimen weakened her, and the health crisis she suffered while under the hospice's care damaged her already frail ...