The Rize Newsroom·Thursday, June 25, 2026

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Eli Lilly Just Paid $3.8 Billion to Bet That Depression's Next Blockbuster Looks Like DMT

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In Phoenix, July Doesn't Just Feel Deadlier for Meth Use. The Numbers Say It Actually Is.

More Americans Now Smoke Weed Every Day Than Drink Every Day. That's Not the Same as a Win.

Arizona's Opioid Settlement Money Went to Prison Healthcare. Nobody Wrote Down Why.

Naloxone Still Reverses Fentanyl. It Doesn't Touch What's Being Cut Into It Now.

Peer Support Workers Are Recovery's Best Technology. Their Employers Still Manage Them Like a Risk.

Nobody Warns You That Year Six of Recovery Has Its Own Crisis. It Just Looks Nothing Like Year One's.

45 Million Americans Have a Substance Use Disorder Right Now. The Government's Own Survey Says So — and Says Most Won't Get Treated.

A Cocaine Batch Laced With Fentanyl Just Killed Someone on the Wisconsin-Michigan Border. It Won't Stay There.

Xylazine Was the Adulterant Everyone Learned to Test For. Medetomidine Is 300 Times Stronger, and the Government Just Defunded the Strips That Catch It

America's Overdose Deaths Are Finally Falling. Arizona's Are Climbing — and Two Federal Rules Land This Week That Make It Worse

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Eli Lilly Just Paid $3.8 Billion to Bet That Depression's Next Blockbuster Looks Like DMT

More reporting

In Phoenix, July Doesn't Just Feel Deadlier for Meth Use. The Numbers Say It Actually Is.

More Americans Now Smoke Weed Every Day Than Drink Every Day. That's Not the Same as a Win.

Arizona's Opioid Settlement Money Went to Prison Healthcare. Nobody Wrote Down Why.

Naloxone Still Reverses Fentanyl. It Doesn't Touch What's Being Cut Into It Now.

Peer Support Workers Are Recovery's Best Technology. Their Employers Still Manage Them Like a Risk.

Nobody Warns You That Year Six of Recovery Has Its Own Crisis. It Just Looks Nothing Like Year One's.

45 Million Americans Have a Substance Use Disorder Right Now. The Government's Own Survey Says So — and Says Most Won't Get Treated.

A Cocaine Batch Laced With Fentanyl Just Killed Someone on the Wisconsin-Michigan Border. It Won't Stay There.

Xylazine Was the Adulterant Everyone Learned to Test For. Medetomidine Is 300 Times Stronger, and the Government Just Defunded the Strips That Catch It

America's Overdose Deaths Are Finally Falling. Arizona's Are Climbing — and Two Federal Rules Land This Week That Make It Worse

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Every substance,
in one place.