America’s Approach to Addiction Has Gone Off the Rails
In a time of fentanyl and meth, we need to use law enforcement differently—and more often.
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Jordan Gale ‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem.
Rachel Bujalski for The Atlantic Physicians Get Addicted Too
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
Jason Fulford The California Doctors Who Found a Way to Quit Overprescribing Opioids
An innovative program has helped patients taper off addictive painkillers, but is it cutting some people off from the medications they need?
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