Colorado lawmakers heard powerful testimony Tuesday about a bill aimed at saving lives. The measure would regulate a food preservative that is lethal in its concentrated form. The preservative, sodium ...

DENVER — Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, according to research presented during the 2025 American Academy ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At first, Bruce Brown thought the substance in his son’s room was a performance supplement, like the plastic bottles alongside it. He’d never heard of sodium ...

The retail giant Amazon missed years-long opportunities to pull a chemical with a documented history of being used by young people to end their lives, KING 5 Investigators and 9NEWS Investigates found ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at outlawing a poison that dozens of young people have used to die by suicide. House Bill 1209 passed out of the ...

Very high levels of sodium nitrite have been detected in samples of meat sent for analysis as part of investigations into the death of one person in Poland. The National Veterinary Research Institute ...

A medical examiner report revealed this week that Empire actress Lindsey Pearlman died by suicide in February from sodium nitrite poisoning—and she’s not alone. Her death is part of an alarming trend ...

Greater daily exposure to nitrites in food and water may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes, French researchers reported. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3 ...

A man who mysteriously died just after a jury found him guilty of multiple child sex offenses killed himself with sodium nitrite, a coroner has ruled. Edward Leclair, 57, had just listened to a jury ...

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Amazon is facing a lawsuit accusing it of selling so-called suicide kits, brought by the families of two teenagers who bought a deadly chemical on the ...