“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 ...

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 ...