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A fire medic holds a box containing naloxone hydrochloride which is carried in all their department's emergency response vehicles, in Akron, Ohio
Health & Medicine
With rising overdoses, British Columbia expands experimental prescription initiative
an overdose naloxone kit in a woman's hands
Health & Medicine
In Vancouver, people who use drugs are supervising injections and reversing overdoses
A used container of the drug Narcan, which is used against opioid overdoses, lies on the ground in a park in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 26, 2017.
Health
US life expectancy fell in 2016 for second year in a row
FCC Commissioner: The Internet Shouldn’t Be a ‘Partisan Pinball’
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Addiction Nation: Understanding America’s Opioid Crisis
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Texas Church Massacre Shows ‘The New Norm in America’
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Addiction Nation: Understanding America’s Opioid Crisis
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Master Grower Ryan Douglas waters marijuana plants in a growing room at Tweed Marijuana Inc. in Smith's Falls, Ontario.
Health
Is marijuana a secret weapon against the opioid epidemic?
Heroin
Lifestyle
The story of heroin shows how medicine advances ‘slowly and painfully’
Culture
US governors discuss the opioid crisis
Amy Wright used to shoot up in alleys like this in downtown Toronto. Now she's helping the city design its safe injection sites.
Health
What’s one way to prevent opioid overdoses? Toronto plans three supervised injection sites.
Police
Lifestyle
The number of daily opioid overdoses in South Florida is overwhelming police
Arts
How this filmmaker went from dealing heroin to working on ‘T2 Trainspotting’
Pills
Health
In 2015 alone, 33,000 Americans died of an opioid-related overdose. What’s fueling the epidemic?
Heroin essay 1
Health
Photos: Getting to know the person behind the heroin addiction
As Campaigns Leave New Hampshire, The Heroin Epidemic Remains
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Searching for Solutions as Heroin Claims 10,000 Lives
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The Capitalist and The Socialist, Cybersecurity, National Parks
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Today’s Takeaways: Fighting the Heroin Epidemic, Searching for a Golden Gun, Struggling for an Inclusive Islam
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Heroin on the National Stage, Military Equality, A Civil Rights Hero
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Nine-year-old Tumelo shows off antiretroviral pills before taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg. Such anti-AIDS drugs are used as part of the cheap, illegal cocktail known as "nyaope."
Health
South Africa’s new drug cocktail of choice is devastating its townships
The telephone number of a "spice" dealer written on a wall outside a Moscow train station.
Health
Just 10 bucks and a phone call can get you Russia’s dangerous new drug
A small kit of supplies containing syringes, bandaids and antiseptic pads waits to be used by a drug addict inside a safe injection site on Vancouver, British Columbia's eastside August 23, 2006. Nearly a decade later, the city will be offering free heroi
Health
Vancouver combats heroin by giving its addicts the best smack in the world
US and Russia collaborate on drug raids in Afghanistan
Recasting the Taliban as mobsters
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Conflict & Justice
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death is an ominous sign of heroin’s expanding reach
PRI’s ‘The World’: Mexico’s War
Palliative care patient in Pune, India.
Health & Medicine
Part V: Dispensing Comfort
Business, Economics and Jobs
Thai Authorities Alarmed By Drug Surge in Golden Triangle
Lifestyle & Belief
FRONTLINE: Opium Brides in Afghanistan
Arts, Culture & Media
Is the Internet a Drug?
Conflict & Justice
How an Afghan Methadone Clinic is Fighting to Counter HIV
Environmental Health Note/Prenatal Smoke
Arts, Culture & Media
Afghan in-flight magazine paints grim reality
Russia wants NATO to stop heroin influx at its source, Afghanistan
Global Politics
A New Anti-Drug Strategy in Afghanistan
The Marines, Battling in Afghanistan