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Topic: Drug use

Tests strips, used to detect the presence of fentanyl and xylazine in different kinds of drugs, such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, lay next to a bag of heroin at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on May 25, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdose deaths continue to decline: CDC

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Playing Ned is Rex Fuller Right playing Felix is Phil Luna This is the play "The Normal Heart" at D.U. (Denver Post via Getty Images)

The arts can destigmatize addiction

Sean Daniels
Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital (Getty Images/JazzIRT)

Climate fueling booze hospitalizations

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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
Young boy staring at glasses of red and white wine (Getty Images/1001slide)

When to have "the talk" about alcohol

Lindsay Karp
Sonoran Desert Toad (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Toad venom smokers urged to go vegan

Troy Farah
Close up of a man smelling marijuana plant (Getty Images/MStudioImages)

Weed doesn’t make you lazy: study

Troy Farah
Excessive Drinking (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

The epidemic of diseases of despair

Matthew Rozsa
(Shutterstock)

Medicating isolation

Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
(Getty/meth-bag)

Inside the sordid world of "Meth Tumblr"

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/dem10)

Hep C and drug abuse go hand in hand

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Supplies on a check in desk at Safer Inside, a realistic model of a safe injection site in San Francisco. (AP/Eric Risber)

How humanism can fight HIV

Widney Brown
Carl Hart (Wikimedia/Shutterstock/Salon)

Time to end the drug war and legalize?

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Getty)

Looking for Philip Roth in Central Park

Lucian K. Truscott IV
(AP)

War on drugs

Dean A. Dabney - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-614080p1.html'>mack2happy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

dare to be good

Paul Boxer - The Conversation
Carrie Fisher; Billie Lourd (Getty/Jason Merritt)

Fisher's daughter on autopsy

Alessandra Maldonado
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

here's how to reduce opioids

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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The immorality of the drug war

Daniel Denvir
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-292820p1.html'>Alex Mit</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Phillip Smith - Alternet
A photo of the author's niece

Heroin and her last day alive

Abigail Warren
Mike Pence (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

GOP's HIV wake-up call

Katie McDonough
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Doing heroin with my dad

Jacqueline Burt Cote

Maia Szalavitz - Substance.com
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