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What is fentanyl? The drug Donald Trump is waging war on

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The president has previously imposed tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico - citing the need to stop the flow of fentanyl into the US. Now, with US intelligence support, Mexico's military has killed "El Mencho" - the leader of one of the country's biggest cartels behind the trafficking of drugs such as fentanyl. Fentanyl causes tens of thousands of deaths in the US each year. But what is the drug, and what makes it so dangerous? What is fentanyl?
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Seasonal affective disorder - or SAD - isn't just 'winter blues'

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Better known as SAD, the acronym doesn't always help. It's one of the best shorthands in psychiatry, Dr Laurence Wainwright, a psychiatry academic at Oxford University, tells Sky News - but it also makes it easy to pass off as "just" sadness. Actually, it is a "major depressive disorder", he says. But because it comes and goes, it's not taken seriously - even though it can be "harrowing" for sufferers.
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Ozempic to Mounjaro - what are the weight loss injections and what were they designed to do?

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The weight loss caused by these weekly injectables is rapid and previously unattainable, people boast, showing off newly svelte bodies. But what are these drugs, how do they work - and what were they originally designed to do? Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro - what are they? Let's start with the most well-known of the trio: Ozempic. Ozempic blew up in 2022 - if media reports from the US were to be believed, every pound dropped in LA was probably thanks to the "miracle" injectable drug.
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