Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
By ERIKA KINETZ and DESMOND BUTLER For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal…
Addiction and substance abuse
Pro-painkiller echo chamber shaped policy amid drug epidemic
By MATTHEW PERRONE and BEN WIEDER For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages touting prescription painkillers’ vital…
Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one…
Attorney: Prince arranged to meet addiction doctor
By KEVIN BURBACH The day before Prince died, his representatives reached out to a California doctor who specializes in addiction treatment to arrange a meeting, a Minneapolis lawyer for the…
Heroin overdose antidote offers hope for vulnerable inmates
By SADIE GURMAN When he was a teenager, Lee Gonzales could not save his uncle from a heroin overdose. Now he worries that the same drug could kill him after…
Getting clean: Heroin addict goes through pioneering program
By PHILIP MARCELO Kylee Moriarty has experienced her share of ups and downs since deciding to kick her heroin habit this past summer. The 26-year-old’s journey started in early July…
VODKA TO BLAME FOR HIGH DEATH RISK IN RUSSIAN MEN
By MARIA CHENG FILE – In this Sept. 2005 file photo, men sleep after drinking on a bench in downtown Moscow. Russian men who down large amounts of vodka _…
Mandela’s granddaughter bares her past in book
By CARLEY PETESCH In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of former president Nelson Mandela, is interviewed in Johannesburg ahead of the launch of her book…