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A large mouth with legs on a stage giving a speech.
Despite its size and influence, the celebrity-speaker industry has long existed in the shadowy nexus of the entertainment industrial complex, its inner workings invisible to outsiders.

The rise of a $2 billion industry, from Hunter S. Thompson to Playgirl centerfolds

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Cave of the Mounds
Inside the Es Càrritx cave on the island of Menorca
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A stock photo shows a bag of cocaine with lines of the drug.
A stock photo shows a bag of cocaine with lines of the drug.
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Pharmedica USA LLC is warning consumers who purchased its Purely Soothing 15% MSM eye drops to stop using the product and return it to the distributor. A recall was issued in compliance with the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) because of a non-sterility issue with the eye drops.

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The invention of birth control provided women with a degree of reproductive freedom that past generations never had, and today there is a great variety of options: pills, rings, gels, vaginal sponges, long-acting implants, surgery, and specialized condoms. Men, on the other hand, only have condoms and the surgical,…

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Scientists at the Population Council, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and elsewhere are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing an innovative male contraceptive gel.

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A homeless addict holds pieces of fentanyl in Los Angeles, in August 2022.
A major investigation in Arizona yielded $13 million worth of drugs, including 30 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl
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Bales of cocaine trapped in a net in the Pacific Ocean
Bales of cocaine were seized by New Zealand authorities.
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Illustration picture shows the ChatGPT artificial intelligence software, which generates human-like conversations.
ChatGPT gave Vice's drugs editor instructions on how to make cocaine and smuggle it into Europe.
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Customers seeking Adderall, oxycodone, and other medications at Mexican pharmacies are being sold counterfeit pills containing dangerous substances like methamphetamine and fentanyl.

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