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 medium.com/@cmoraff_84161/la…
🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Una fuente anónima del CJNG acaba de afirmar que el ciudadano estadounidense Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias "O3", ha sido nombrado nuevo líder del CJNG. Es hijastro de El Mencho y controla el brazo armado del cártel, Grupo Élite.
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 dea.gov/press-releases/2025/…
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_pagroundhogs.org/news/f/pag-…
PAGROUNDHOGS joined harm reduction groups in a statement opposing the proposed scheduling of medetomidine. @thephillyvoice took a deep dive into the potential ramifications. phillyvoice.com/medetomidine…
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
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! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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.” search.app/HyeDDb8Gh4FG2eSB6
Thanks @PittsburghPG for including @PGroundhogs in your new piece on the state’s radically changing dope supply… post-gazette.com/news/health… FYI here’s our latest numbers on adulterants found with fentanyl including medetomidine and xylazine (Phila/Q4/24 to Present)
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
Unconfirmed Report of 30 Shots Heard, 10 People Armed With Guns on Weymouth Street in Kensington reported on @CitizenBreakingPHL go.citizen.com/OoqnuKuhBSb