Five Drug Scares In 2014

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/12/25/the-5-best-drug-scares-of-2014/

Or as one of the authors put it last year, “It didn’t seem as though [vaping] really proved to be a gateway to anything.”

And although deaths related to 25I-NBOMe seem to be pretty rare, they are more common than deaths related to LSD, which has been used by around 25 million Americans without being linked to any fatal overdoses…

That single incident generated more talk of a “heroin epidemic” than everything else that happened in the previous 12 years. Needless to say, the heroin-related death of a gifted and widely admired actor, though tragic, tells us nothing about the prevalence of heroin use or the direction in which it is headed. Judging from the survey data, coverage of the putative epidemic really took off around the time when heroin use started to fall.