Found this blast from the past from 2018 where I first proposed a “freelancer effect” caused by low cost fentanyl (which dramatically lowered the bar for entrance into the “heroin” business) was a significant factor in the overdose crisis

DEA targets Sinaloa Cartel in massive four-day sweep. Am interested to see if/how this trickles down to street level. Soon all dope will be cobbled together from unscheduled slop like medetomidine and lidocaine

What does @PGroundhogs do? Number 23: we test what’s in smoke shop vapes so you don’t have to. This Rick&Morty vape, obtained by PAG collectors, had Dimethylpentylone- a substituted cathinone along with THC delta 9. Featured in @NPSDiscovery

Very proud of @pgroundhogs inaugural drug purity trend report, a first of its kind from a community based #drugchecking org. New insight on medetomidine concentrations. Couldn’t have done this without our dedicated partners at @CFSRE_ https://t.co/YhILWoAL48

China announces class-wide ban on nitazenes

PAGROUNDHOGS joined harm reduction groups in a statement opposing the proposed scheduling of medetomidine. @thephillyvoice took a deep dive into the potential ramifications.

Important new research on Kratom pokes holes in FDA classification as an “opioid” via Johns Hopkins Medicine

Mexican authorities gun down Jorge Humberto "El Perris" Figueroa-head of security for LosChapitos & orchestrator of 2019 attack that freed Ovidio Guzman Lopez from Mexican custody

via insight crime...

I’ve been looped into a lot of projects on xylazine since breaking the story in the US in 2017. But not one has left me feeling the honor and gratitude of joining this cast of characters - THE leaders in their respective fields-as an author. Thanks , Dan!

This is what we’re going back to if we don’t stand together against regressive drug policies. “Edwards was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1993 for selling a spoonful of cocaine to an ex-girlfriend.”

Pitt Researchers Cite PAGROUNDHOGS Adulterant Report in New CDC briefing on medetomidine. #drugchecking

Thanks @PittsburghPG for including @PGroundhogs in your new piece on the state’s radically changing dope supply… https://t.co/ReEMQ1ve1v FYI here’s our latest numbers on adulterants found with fentanyl including medetomidine and xylazine (Phila/Q4/24 to Present)

Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

Three months after the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs scheduled Bromazolam - the leading analog used in pressed counterfeit Xanax - our first substitute, phenazolam, was identified in the sample below. Via @PGroundhogs

Dr Neil Anand is guilty on all counts. This is terrible and terrifying. I’m beyond upset I’m scared for our Doctors and for our lives and others.

Unconfirmed Report of 30 Shots Heard, 10 People Armed With Guns on Weymouth Street in Kensington reported on @CitizenBreakingPHL

Not a single word in this title describes something real.

Spatiotemporal clustering of SUD-related deaths in the contiguous United States (2005–2020) . From 2013 onward, clusters emerged in the western US, shifting to the eastern US post-2016. https://t.co/HkqyuwbyYh

Thanks ⁦@NPR⁩ for including me & ⁦@PGroundhogs⁩ in this important story. Fatal fentanyl overdoses are down in every state https://t.co/LlgIlO6hRc

So many things wrong with this story I don’t know where to start. PRINCE GEORGE - Northern Health is alerting those who use drugs about a substance being sold in the region tha...