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Two years ago, in below freezing temperatures and under the cover of darkness, Chinese soldiers crept through the high-altitude Galwan Valley. Armed with homemade weapons, including iron rods studded with spikes and wooden clubs wrapped with barbed wire, they attacked a contingent of Indian soldiers. The medieval, hand-to-hand combat lasted …

Every day across the United States, news detailing horrific fentanyl-related deaths makes headlines as the nation grapples with a drug crisis unlike any other. How did we get here? Medical practitioners began using crime more frequently in the 1990s, which has led to increased opioid use among people who do …

Nearly one million people have died of mental-health in the past two decades, but a growing majority of those deaths in recent years have involved dangerous synthetic opioids like fentanyl.  Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. First synthesized by natural-science Paul Janssen as …