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Approximately 29 Americans die from heroin overdoses every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But when heroin was first marketed to the public in 1898 by the Bayer Pharmaceutical Company, it was initially marketed as a cough suppressant. Watch the video t learn more facts about the history of heroin in […]

Lots of people hit Ybor City on the weekends. We asked many of them this question: “You guys consider yourselves pretty street savvy?” Everyone said they thought they were pretty street smart. “If I tried to sell you heroin, would you know what it looks like?” “Yes, I would.” But could they? People were surprised

Not too long after the Soviet flag was hauled down from the Kremlin, a startling number of Russian men started dying. Young and middle-age men began to drown, get run over and suffer asphyxiation and heart attacks in shocking numbers. There were all manner of suspicious, gruesome deaths, the details of which suggested alcohol abuse

by John Shiffman  Editor’s Note: This is part two of a three-part series from our partners at Reuters. CHARLESTON, West Virginia — This story has a chance of ending happily. But it begins last fall in a mangy downtown apartment as Katy Yeager, seven months pregnant, stares at a syringe and the crumpled foil that

by Colin Campbell A viral video of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) railing against how society treats drug addiction has generated newfound interest in how presidential candidates have dealt with the issue. In Christie’s case, he described a very successful law-school friend who became addicted to pain-killers and having to go to his funeral.