How the Internet Became the ‘Cookbook’ of the Drug Trade

Scritto il 31/03/2026
da Matt Richtel and Meridith Kohut

A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar.Synthetic opiates called nitazenes, including N-desethyl etonitazene, are increasingly causing fatal overdoses across North America.