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How One Group Is Expanding Access to Overdose-Reversing Drugs Through the Mail
Since people can already order fentanyl and other harmful drugs via the darknet, NEXT wants to make obtaining items that reduce harm just as easy to get.
This Is How to Get Health Insurance to Cover Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Although the Affordable Care Act is supposed to guarantee addiction treatment to anyone with insurance, people with opioid addictions still face a dysfunctional system.
Dan Bigg Is a Harm-Reduction Pioneer and His Overdose Doesn’t Change That
Bigg brought the opioid antidote naloxone to the streets. But today’s poisoned drug supply makes saving lives harder than ever.
What ‘13 Reasons Why’ Gets Right About Heroin Addiction
Based on my experience as a former heroin user, and as a journalist covering addiction, the show’s depiction is refreshingly authentic.
The Maker of OxyContin Is Funding Efforts to Fight Addiction: Is It ‘Blood Money’ or Charity?
Purdue Pharma, whose top-selling painkiller, OxyContin, helped fuel the opioid epidemic, now wants to help treat it—or at least salvage its own reputation.
Big Pharma is profiting from both opioids and overdose treatments
“Companies are cynically profiting from both ends of the crisis”
Trump's answer to the opioid crisis is $57,000 and "Just say no"
After nearly two and a half months of failing to follow through on his pledge to declare a national state of emergency in response to the opioid crisis, President Donald Trump is finally taking action. Sort of.
How OxyContin's maker tried to influence Trump's opioid commission
Documents obtained by VICE News reveal that a top executive at Purdue Pharma met with a member of the commission created by President Donald Trump to advise his administration on the opioid epidemic.
Staten Island Fought Back Against the Opioid Epidemic
Suburbs and small towns in middle America may be the poster children for the opioid epidemic, but there was an equal storm brewing five miles south of Manhattan.