A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

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

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

What we get wrong about the opioid crisis.

On the ground in Wilmington.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.

Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.