[Link] A 13-Year-Old Died of a Fentanyl Overdose. Experts Say the Response was ‘Theater.’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Last Thursday, a 13-year-old student from the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford, Connecticut, overdosed on fentanyl at the school and died two days later.

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[Link] New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World To Fully Legalise Drug Checking

Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com

New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions.

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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.

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