Breaking Bad: Digital Drug Sales, Analog Drug Deaths

Houston Press | March 14, 2013
The feds and a prosecutor say a Houston company selling synthetic drugs on the Internet is responsible for the deaths of teenagers in Minnesota and North Dakota.

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