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Drugs
ask a cool person
Feb. 12, 2024
What Are the Best CBD Products? Including tinctures, topicals, edibles, and more.
social studies
Feb. 2, 2024
What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing? The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. They’re telling the wrong story.
By Rachael Bedard
method acting
Jan. 29, 2024
Paul Anderson Pleads Guilty to Taking Acting Seriously His lawyer explained that the Peaky Blinders actor was trying to please fans by “slipping into character” when he was caught in possession of cocaine.
street fights
Nov. 15, 2023
The Great ‘Fentanyl Trash Can’ Freak-out How competing text threads, park litter, and a tragic Bronx day-care death made Brooklyn parents lose their minds.
By Clio Chang
just asking questions
Nov. 7, 2023
What a Fraternity Drug-Dealing Ring Reveals About College Life Now The multimillion-dollar frat-based crime syndicate speaks to an anxiety-ridden, drug-fueled Greek culture.
By Will Leitch
A One-Year-Old Died From a Suspected Fentanyl Overdose at a Bronx Day Care The DEA and Mexican police arrested the husband of the center’s operator in Sinaloa.
By Tariro Mzezewa
investigations
July 14, 2023
Who Brought Cocaine Into the West Wing? The Secret Service closed its investigation without finding a suspect.
By Tariro Mzezewa
A Man Has Been Charged in the Death of Designer Katie Gallagher She is one of five people believed to have been drugged in a string of similar attacks.
By Bindu Bansinath
vulture recommends
June 13, 2023
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue Was the Gateway Drug of IP CrossoversIn 1990, Bugs Bunny, Garfield, the Smurfs, Slimer, and other cartoons joined forces to shame a 14-year-old who smoked a little pot.
By A.A. Dowd
recommended by experts
Apr. 10, 2023
The Best Cannabis Infusers, According to Experts Including one infuser that two of our experts say works like “an Easy-Bake Oven.”
fear vs. fun
Jan. 28, 2023
Phone, Keys, Wallet, Test Strip Checking for fentanyl is becoming a necessary ritual of nightlife.
By Kyra Breslin
Could Magic Mushrooms Be the Drug to Finally Cure Eating Disorders? For young patients, lasting treatment can feel elusive. Psychedelics could change that.
By Megan Zhang
Tripping With My Mom An unspoken, impenetrable chill kept us apart for years. ’Shrooms brought us back together.
By Jeff Dingler
Fetty Wap Pleads Guilty in Federal Drug Case He is facing a minimum of five years in prison.
By Victoria Bekiempis
Hayden Panettiere Went to Rehab for Opioid and Alcohol Addiction She says she began “a cycle of self-destruction” after being given pills at 15.
By Justin Curto
Tripping Down the Aisle Mushroom microdoses are the new signature cocktails.
By Jenni Avins
psychedelics
Feb. 22, 2022
The Curious Life and Mind-Altering Death of Justin Clark It’s rare to become addicted to esoteric hallucinogens. But it’s not impossible.
By Christopher Robbins
are u coming?
Dec. 10, 2021
By Brock Colyar
movie review
July 22, 2021
By Bilge Ebiri
The Pandemic Year Broke the Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses Fentanyl and the isolation of quarantine proved deadly for tens of thousands of Americans.
By Sarah Jones
What’s Going on With Fentanyl Overdoses in New York? Parties are back, and so is panic about what’s in the cocaine.
By Bridget Read
What Are Nootropics, and Can They Help Me Focus? The so-called “smart drugs” are supposed to aid concentration. But how?
By Daniela Morosini
keeping up with the royals
May 21, 2021
Prince Harry Reveals ‘Nightmare’ Alcohol and Drug Use After Diana’s Death “I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.”
By Devon Ivie
ask a cool person
Apr. 13, 2021
What Are the Best CBD Bath Products? From salts to serums to bombs (including one made by actress Kristen Bell).
ask a cool person
Apr. 5, 2021
What Are the Best CBD Gummies? Like their counterparts that are infused with vitamins, gummies infused with CBD are an easy way to incorporate the cannabinoid into a daily routine.
strategist investigates
Mar. 29, 2021
Welcome to the Dissociation Generation Can a new era of drugs help us prioritize healing over hedonism?
By Michelle Lhooq
Demi Lovato Was Legally Blind Following Her 2018 Overdose “I didn’t leave myself time to really feel sad about it. I just was like, how do I fix it?”
By Charu Sinha
Is Jay-Z’s Luxury Weed Any Good? We tried his $50 cannabis cigars to find out.
By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
from the archives
Dec. 28, 2020
From the Archives: Party Boy in a Cage Revisiting New York ’s 2006 profile of Michael Alig.
By Jonathan Van Meter
the other epidemic
Dec. 23, 2020
The Deadliest Year In the History of U.S. Drug Use Harrowing new data shows the pandemic created conditions that make using drugs more dangerous.
By Zachary Siegel
last night on late night
Dec. 9, 2020
By Megh Wright
Legal Weed and Shrooms Won Big Last Night Six states and the District of Columbia passed drug decriminalization initiatives.
By Hannah Gold
opioid crisis
Oct. 21, 2020
OxyContin Maker Will Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges, Again A new federal settlement holds itself out as justice. Reality is more complicated.
By Sarah Jones
two friends
Sept. 23, 2020
By Anne Victoria Clark
U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record High in 2019 And initial data suggests that there were 42 percent more overdoses in May 2020 than there were the previous May.
By Eric Levitz
strategist investigates
May 15, 2020
What Does CBD in Skin Care Actually Do? It won’t get you high, but it might clear your acne.
By Karen Iorio Adelson
The Best Book I Read in 2019 Was This 800-Page Sex Memoir Susi Wyss’s Guess Who Is the Happiest Girl in Town? fulfills all voyeuristic needs.
By Kerensa Cadenas
president trump
Dec. 24, 2019
Trump Conquered the GOP by Surrendering to Its Establishment The president has forced congressional Republicans to put him above the law — but not above the conservative agenda.
By Eric Levitz
happy holidays
Dec. 10, 2019
By Madeleine Aggeler
Trump Mulls Throwing Big Pharma Under the Bus to Save NAFTA 2.0 The U.S. has long used trade deals as an excuse to export America’s high drug prices. Trump is reportedly willing to back away from that tradition.
By Eric Levitz
A Party Drug for the End of the World How ketamine became the vice of choice for our dissociated moment.
By Anna Silman
South Dakota Debuts New Anti-Drug Campaign: ‘Meth. We’re On It.’ The website — onmeth.com — isn’t helping clear up the intentions of the $449,000 advertising campaign.
By Matt Stieb
social science
Nov. 12, 2019
Taking the Right Lessons From Dion Waiters’s Weed Panic Attack The Twitter jokes were fine, but there’s something serious going on here too.
By Jesse Singal
Xanax Pulled From Shelves Due to Potential Contamination Risk Drug company Mylan has recalled one lot of the anti-anxiety medication over “the potential presence of foreign substance.”
By Hannah Gold
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