A Q&A with the reporter and editor behind a recent criminal justice story about how some prosecutors are treating overdose deaths as homicides.
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Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake
A personal essay in which, a decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
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Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake
A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake
A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
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The Sacred Right of Universal Narcotic Entitlement
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.
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The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families
As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
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Children of the Opioid Epidemic Are Flooding Foster Homes. America Is Turning a Blind Eye.
The first casualty of America’s opioid epidemic beyond the users themselves? The American family. As mom and dad are nodding out and overdosing in record numbers, the kids are going into an under-funded foster care system struggling to handle the sheer volume of children who need food, shelter, clothing, and above all, stability.
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West Virginia: Still High on Hope
The state with the highest overdose rate in the United States is the front line of the opioid crisis.
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Nyet to Harm Reduction: Russia’s HIV Epidemic
In Yekaterinburg, the fourth largest city in Russia, one in 50 are HIV positive, half of which are due to intravenous drug use.
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Opioid Addicts Are Losing Their Memories and Doctors Don’t Know Why
How does opioid overdose permanently damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory?