The fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. is intensely tragic for individuals and damaging to society, but it is not without precedent. For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed ...

“An object of mingled horror and pity…with yellow pasty face, drooping lids and pin-point pupils…the wreck and ruin of a noble man,” he was a slave to this “burning poison,” writes Dr. Watson, of ...