News
August 10
Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them.
The Lowdown
June 16
A little-noticed law could make it easier to punish people for low-level drug crimes — and put them in prison for longer with less proof.
Life Inside
September 3, 2020
I asked a drug court to send me to jail to get stabilized. But when the jail refused to give me my Suboxone, everything came crashing down.
News
May 10, 2019
Some doctors are abandoning the long-held belief that treating addiction is impossible without talk therapy.
Commentary
August 30, 2017
Trump Sells Snake Oil on Opioids
Instead of offering real solutions to the epidemic, the president is race baiting.
News
November 6, 2015
A widespread heroin problem could open the door to a once-radical idea.
Analysis
August 12, 2015
Suddenly it’s not a crime problem, it’s a health problem.