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Inside Chicago's battle against the synthetic drugs flooding the US
A new wave of synthetic drugs is sweeping across the United States, raising fear of a worsening drug crisis. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from the frontlines in South Side, Chicago, where communities are battling the crisis.
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Inside Chicago's battle against the synthetic drugs flooding the US
A new wave of synthetic drugs is sweeping across the United States, raising fear of a worsening drug crisis. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from the frontlines in South Side, Chicago, where communities are battling the crisis.
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| October 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM EDT to October 18, 2026 at 10:01 PM EDT | Link resolves | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 4 hours, the same result every time. 200, text/html, 411447 characters, landed on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c84g166kz003o?at_campaign=rss&at_medium=RSS The wording varied; every check is below.Every one of the 2
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| October 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM EDT | Page contains the quotation | Passed | 200 | the page contains the quotation, exactly |
| October 18, 2026 at 10:01 PM EDT | Page contains the quotation | Failed | 200 | the page does not contain the quotation, exactly |
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