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Pharmaceutical companies exploited a regulatory loophole that allowed for a decades-long boom in licit opioid production fueled by Tasmanian-grown poppies. Here's what the island can tell us about the next wave of the crisis.

It looks like the marketplace for illicit drugs is getting more competitive.

The DEA's license plate tracking program is just the latest case of surveillance gone wrong.

As states crack down hard on pain prescriptions, some are seeing a resurgence in abuse of the harder stuff.