For years, families living next to military bases were told the toxic "forever chemicals" in their water would be cleaned up on a set schedule. A new investigation shows many of those timelines have quietly slipped, in some cases by two decades or more. According to reporting published July 26, 2026 by USA Today, the […]

Texas Sues Over High-Potency 7-OH Kratom Texas has taken a kratom retailer to court over 7-OH, the compound that makes some kratom products act like a powerful opioid. The state accused the seller of offering products with 7-OH at levels many times higher than the law allows. It is one of the clearest signs yet […]

More States Ban Gas Station Heroin The list of states banning gas station heroin keeps getting longer. The drug is tianeptine, and by mid-2026, roughly 15 states treated it as a controlled substance or banned its sale outright. Connecticut became one of the latest, folding tianeptine into a sweeping ban on unregulated substances sold at […]

Kratom Wrongful Death Verdicts Hit Millions Kratom killed a young mother of four, and a jury told the company behind the product to pay 11 million dollars. That verdict was not a fluke. It is part of a pattern that should worry every company still selling kratom as a harmless herbal supplement. For years, kratom […]