No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing

Scritto il 21/03/2026
da Azam Ahmed, Matt Richtel and Meridith Kohut

Lab-made drugs soaked into the pages of letters, books and even legal documents are being smuggled behind bars, killing inmates and frustrating investigators.The Division 9 Maximum Security Dormitory of the Cook County Department of Corrections — where inmates have been found using deadly illicit drugs — saturated onto paper — in the pages of books, letters from family and legal documents.