Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way. Facebook also has a lengthy, detailed COVID-19 policy making clear that it
TIJUANA, Mexico — “These are my children,” said Lorena, touching a necklace shaped like a string of children hand in hand that hung around her neck. “One of them is gone.” Lorena, who asked VICE World News not to use her real name for fear of reprisals for telling her story, let out a deep
MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that he is open to releasing one of the world's most notorious drug lords because of his age and poor health. The incarcerated kingpin and alleged godfather of Mexico’s contemporary drug trafficking industry, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo has been behind bars for more than over 30 years
None of the nine wealthy 20-somethings who were rushed to Manhattan emergency rooms by ambulance one night in November 2019 meant to use opioids. They all thought they were using cocaine, until seven of them passed out within minutes of the first bump. All of them needed hits of naloxone, the overdose reversal drug, on
A Norwegian court sentenced a man to prison after he allegedly attempted to smuggle 88 pounds of amphetamine disguised as a shipment from biotechnology company BioNTech. According to Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, customs officials initially intercepted the 50-year-old Polish man in January shortly after he arrived from Denmark via a ferry. His van was covered
I was 18 years old when I first tasted kava, poured from a silver thermos into a small bowl made of slick koa wood. I had heard of the bitter beverage while growing up in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, but had never seen it in person until then. It looked like caramel mud,
PANTELHO, Mexico – As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak. Led by a new self-defense militia called “El Machete,” the people had descended from their mountain villages on
Picture this: you enter a pharmacy, hand over your doctor’s prescription, and the pharmacist hands you back a small, lightweight, analog device, about the size of a pager. It is, the pharmacist explains, the equivalent of an insulin pump. After having it calibrated according to your recommended dosage, you go home, lift your shirt, attach
Nor Saloma was sick. Sick of inaction from politicians who were “too busy fighting to stay in power” to pay attention to the needs of citizens; sick of the uncertainty brought about by the never-ending pandemic; and now sick with the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. Life has been “a living nightmare” for
Nor Saloma was sick. Sick of inaction from politicians who were “too busy fighting to stay in power” to pay attention to the needs of citizens; sick of the uncertainty brought about by the never-ending pandemic; and now sick with the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. Life has been “a living nightmare” for