Tag: opioids

“Then, after he was done seeing patients for the day, he’d begin his other work. The work no one could find out about. The work that would destroy his life, along with hundreds of others.”

When a promising student left a neighborhood full of heroin for the University of Pennsylvania, it should have been a moving story. But what does an at-risk student actually need to thrive — or even just to survive?

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

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

Swimmer Morgan Stickney opted to amputate her leg below the knee to get off of opioids and get back in the pool after a seemingly innocuous foot injury and the ensuing complications left her in pain.

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.

A Q&A with the reporter and editor behind a recent criminal justice story about how some prosecutors are treating overdose deaths as homicides.

A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.

Inventing maladies and marketing drugs to relieve them isn’t a new m.o. for pharmaceutical companies. OxyContin is its fullest and most terrible expression.

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.

In Yekaterinburg, the fourth largest city in Russia, one in 50 are HIV positive, half of which are due to intravenous drug use.

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

Vice’s Geraldine Malone walks the streets with group of volunteers dedicated to fighting overdoses.