Drug users have been banging the drum about the dangers here for years now. All the drugs are toxic. There is no safe dosage. There is no opioid crisis. There a

Drug users have been banging the drum about the dangers here for years now. All the drugs are toxic. There is no safe dosage. There is no opioid crisis. There are no opioids. It's all a toxic mess of unknown chemicals in the street drugs. This is a core reason why the death rate has been spiking upwards. Really good to see more reporting about this, but also alarming at the delay from when the problem started and when mainstream press is starting to talk about it. Advocacy groups have achieved a bit of traction of getting some media to correctly call this a "toxic drug" crisis, but here we see an example of a major national media outlet while thankfully still ploddingly coming around to reporting on the issue, still framing things in the deprecated terms of an "opioid crisis" framework that is years out of date.