Opioids
How a Pharma Giant Flooded the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation With Opioids
Exclusive data shows drug distributor McKesson supplied the vast majority of painkillers to Native American communities across the U.S. during the opioid epidemic.
Confessions of a Chinese Fentanyl Trafficker: ‘I’m Really Afraid of Hurting People’
We arranged a meeting in Shanghai with a synthetic-drug merchant for our podcast “Painkiller: America’s Fentanyl Crisis.”
Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Fentanyl Smuggling Operations
We shadowed cartel members in Mexico along every step of the fentanyl supply chain.
Brain Implants to Treat Addiction Are Dangerous and Promising
The U.S. is conducting clinical trials of deep brain stimulation for opioid addiction, but ethical questions abound.
Deadly Overdoses Are Rocking Canada's Poorest Neighbourhood Under Lockdown
In the Downtown Eastside, ground zero for Canada’s opioid crisis, a new wave of fatal overdoses has Vancouver's top doctor worried.
BC Will Prescribe Heroin Alternatives to Slow Overdoses and COVID-19 Exposure
An emergency harm reduction strategy allows dependent drug users to take home medical replacements for fentanyl, meth, and other street drugs.
People Who Take Opioid Painkillers Are Getting Screwed Thanks to Coronavirus
Quarantined people have to go out to get their prescriptions and can't get a backup supply.
Supervised Drug Use Will Move Online Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Some Vancouver harm reduction advocates are taking a DIY approach to B.C.’s intersecting health emergencies.
40 Americans Are Dying Every Month From Taking this New, Legal Opioid
Isotonitazene is a novel synthetic opioid that has not yet been banned. But deaths are on the rise.
The First Legal Safe Injection Site in the U.S. Is Set to Open Next Week. Here's Why That Matters.
A judge ruled that the site would not violate federal drug laws, over the objections of the Trump administration.
A Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing a Drug Twice as Strong as Heroin
Hydromorphone, aka "Dilly," is now available to people who aren't ready or able to quit opioids.
5 Years After a Devastating HIV Outbreak, Indiana Is Still Lacking in Needle Exchanges
Public health experts say this reflects a continuing reluctance to treat addiction as a health issue.