When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.

How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.

How an island in the Antipodes became the world’s leading supplier of licit opioids.

Two strangers travel toward various destinations.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.

The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.

After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

When Chad Baker died from a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin, prosecutors charged Tommy Kosto, his friend and fellow drug user, with killing him—a tactic from the Reagan-era war on drugs that is gaining popularity around the country.

“The first thing I always notice… is that I’m not alone.”

The stark realities of nature and nuture.

Studios want to hire kids with genuine depth, but the system in place to protect child actors isn’t equipped if their lives go perilously downhill.

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

On the ground in Wilmington.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.

The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

The rise and fall of a chubby Idaho pizza delivery boy turned weed kingpin.

Sixty journalists cover an ordinary week in an epidemic.

An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.

An anatomy of a failure.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.