The 5 Most Addictive Substances
By H&W
Heroin Experts ranked heroin as the most addictive drug, giving it a score of 3 out of a maximum score of 3. Heroin is an opiate that causes the level of dopamine in the brain’s reward system to increase by up to 200% in experimental animals. In addition to being arguably the most addictive drug, heroin […]
How This Town of 392 People Received 9 Million Pain Killers in Just Two Years
By H&W
If you want to know how the opioid epidemic spiraled out of control, it’s hard to do better than this statistic: Between 2006 and 2016, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 21 million opioid painkillers to two pharmacies in Williamson, West Virginia, population 2,900. Over the same period, the number of opioid deaths in the US doubled to […]
