Tag: opioid epidemic

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

In an excerpt from his essay collection, Australian journalist Richard Cooke reports on the American opioid crisis through the astonished eyes of a foreigner visiting steel and coal country.

How one doctor beat his addiction to start helping members of his West Virginia community to do the same.

Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.

New books about the opioid crisis — “Dopesick,” “Fight for Space” and “American Fix” — have different ideas about who’s to blame and what to do next. Our critic says regulating supply can have deadly consequences, and we need to address users’ pain.

Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.

Illegal encampments on Colorado’s public lands are creating unsafe conditions for locals and damaging the land with trash.

As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.

The state with the highest overdose rate in the United States is the front line of the opioid crisis.

How does opioid overdose permanently damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory?

The story of Zaine, Arianna, and Zoie Pulliam — three kids under 17 living in South Charleston, West Virginia. Deemed “opiate orphans,” they exemplify a generation of children whose parents have died of drug overdoses as a result of the opioid epidemic.