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Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Social Media Radicalization (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Shutting down the right-wing rabbit hole

Amanda Marcotte
Andre Royo performs "Drinking in America" (Jeremy Daniel)

Andre Royo's rock bottom to career high

D. Watkins
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

No one-size-fits-all for addiction

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
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People gather for International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why forced drug treatment is violence

Tyson Singh Kelsall, Alya Govorchin, Lyana Patrick - The Conversation
Man standing on the edge of syringe needle (Getty Images/Boris Zhitkov)

Is "pre-addiction" really a thing?

Troy Farah
Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden quiet on opioid settlements

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

What is xylazine?

Kavita Babu - The Conversation
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Rehabilitation centre room prepared for a group therapy session. (Getty Images/SolStock)

Recovery doesn't have to look like A.A.

Peter Grinspoon
Young caucasian female addict preparing heroin dose. (Getty Images/urbazon)

The science of relapsing — and recovery

Matthew Rozsa
Little girls on smartphones (Getty Images/Peathegee Inc)

Surgeon general wary of social media

Matthew Rozsa
Pine Tree forest | Key (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Death, drugs and an unreliable narrator

Alison Stine
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Assortment of junk foods (Getty Images/carlosgaw)

Why are we addicted to junk food?

Matthew Rozsa
Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. (Getty Images/Darwin Brandis)

Fentanyl panic mirrors crack epidemic

Ryan Hampton
A box of Narcan nasal spray (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
A courier delivers a food order to a customer (Salon/Getty Images/Georgijevic)

I got hooked on Uber Eats — as a driver

Margaret Dodge
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The toll of opioids in rural America

Aneri Pattani, Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Gretchen Bergman and her family (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Bergman)

Moms against the war on drugs

Troy Farah
A big part of Donna Norton’s job as a peer support specialist with the Hornbuckle Foundation is building relationships with people in the early stages of recovery from substance use disorders. Norton draws from her own history with addiction, homelessness, and the justice system to help them get back on their feet. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN)

"Player-coaches" changing recovery game

Rae Ellen Bichell
At Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, a poster warns about the dangers of fentanyl. Four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, south of Austin, died from fentanyl overdoses in July and August. (Colleen DeGuzman/KHN)

When fentanyl came to a Texas school

Colleen DeGuzman
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Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt - Interview with the Vampire _ Season 1, Episode 3 (Alfonso Bresciani/AMC)

Rice's drinking influenced "Interview"

Kelly McClure
A courier delivers a food order to a customer (Getty Images/Georgijevic)

I got hooked on Uber Eats — as a driver

Margaret Dodge
Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

Is marijuana addictive?

Nicole Karlis
Peaky Blinders (Netflix/Matt Squire)

"Peaky Blinders" & the crime of sobriety

Alison Stine
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