Paul J. Larkin

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Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration, holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory on April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia.

Community and Family

Nitazenes prove that the problem of synthetic drug use can always worsen

Paul J. Larkin · July 16, 2026 12:00 pm

Bearing cuts all over his face, a homeless drug addict, who said his name is April Jane, aimlessly stares into space on a sidewalk in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. No one shares the same story how they ended up in the center of poverty and despair. The streets are ruled by drugs day and night. Help exists, but too many turn to drugs to cope with their problems.

Beltway Confidential

The opioid crisis keeps getting deadlier

Paul J. Larkin, Abby Carr · August 7, 2023 1:05 pm

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