The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust
Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.
Opioid Crisis
Dr. Opioid
A well-heeled doctor. An outlaw biker gang. A massive painkiller supply chain.
America’s Other Epidemic
A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis as it quietly rages on.
Piled Bodies, Overflowing Morgues: Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis
Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?
A Deadly Mistake
The wrong way to fight the opioid crisis.
Hundreds of Florida Inmates Are Serving Drug Sentences No Longer in State Law
Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.
The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
We Didn't Stand a Chance Against Opioids
What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.
Opiate Island
How an island in the Antipodes became the world’s leading supplier of licit opioids.
How Sackler Became the Most Toxic Name in Philanthropy
A profile of Joss Sackler.
“Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs”
How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.
Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’
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.
The Men Who Didn't Disappear
Two brothers and the opioid epidemic around Pittsburgh.
Children of the Opioid Epidemic
In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.
The Pain Refugees
What we get wrong about the opioid crisis.
