How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.

Todd Marinovich was engineered from birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time. He ended up doing heroin in the locker room. A 2010 National Magazine Award winner, reprinted on Longform.

A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.

A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.

Jaimee was beloved. Jaimee was struggling. And then Jaimee was gone.

On the ground in Wilmington.

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s widow on addiction, loss, and recovery.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

Sixty journalists cover an ordinary week in an epidemic.

On codeine syrup and Sprite

A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction.

On heroin and harm reduction.

Twelve-step programs treat alcohol and drugs according to the same principles. But heroin changes the way the brain works. If there’s a medication that treats heroin addiction, why aren’t we using it?

What does it take for heroin to grab hold in the small, remote towns of America? Like any business, it starts with one man and an entrepreneurial dream.

Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.

Laurie Sperring’s Staten Island nightmare.

"Caught between the dealers and the cops in Hazleton, Pa., is a woman with a bad habit."

Previously: Susan Dominus on the Longform Podcast.

Robert Aaron was a veteran horn player who sold bags of heroin to friends to support his own habit. Then his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman overdosed.

The last days of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”

How a 40-year-old IT consultant became nod, one of Silk Road’s highest volume heroin dealers, who turned informant and then fugitive.

A recent history of ‘bupe’ Suboxone film, which is described as a miracle cure for opiate addiction but flows freely from for-profit clinics to dealers and inmates, sometimes melted into the pages of smuggled Bibles.

Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.