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EU threatens to shut down popular app that pays users to watch videos

Arts, Culture & Media

The European Commission is calling the new TikTok Lite app “toxic as cigarettes.” It’s a spin-off from the makers of the original TikTok, that pays people to watch videos. The EC says it was launched without regard for risks of addiction, or safeguards against children using it. Now they’re threatening to suspend it.

a white bottle of Oxycontin sits on a shelf.

How do our brains react to drugs? A former addict turned neuroscientist explains.

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The number of daily opioid overdoses in South Florida is overwhelming police

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The World

How this filmmaker went from dealing heroin to working on ‘T2 Trainspotting’

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Pills

In 2015 alone, 33,000 Americans died of an opioid-related overdose. What’s fueling the epidemic?

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A small kit of supplies containing syringes, bandaids and antiseptic pads waits to be used by a drug addict inside a safe injection site on Vancouver, British Columbia's eastside August 23, 2006. Nearly a decade later, the city will be offering free heroi

Vancouver combats heroin by giving its addicts the best smack in the world

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Heroin has been a major problem in Vancouver for decades. To battle it, the city has launched a new program that provides serious addicts pure heroin three times a day. Is that actually a good idea?

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