Dublin, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Phenacetin (CAS 62-44-2) Industry Research 2025: Global and Regional Market Trends 2019-2024 and Forecast to 2029" report has been added to ...

A harmful banned painkiller has been found in cocaine samples tested on the Gold Coast. Phenacetin was banned in Australia decades ago because of links to renal disease and cancer in long-term users.

A chilling warning been issued about cocaine that may be circulating in Australia ahead of Christmas - with police finding hauls that have been cut with drugs dangerous to humans. The Australian ...

CheQpoint Drug Checking Service detected phenacetin, a pain-relief and fever-reducing drug, in two samples of cocaine at its Burleigh Heads site on August 1. It comes only a month after the pill and ...

To the Editor: In their paper, "Splenomegaly, Analgesic Ingestion and Renal Disease," (New Eng. J. Med. 277:749–751, 1967) Drs. Fordham and Huffines speculate about the possible causes of enlargement ...

Police in Nelson, B.C., have issued a public safety warning after learning suspected cocaine had been cut with a potentially cancer-causing substance. Officers in the West Kootenay city sent a seized ...