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Topic: opioid epidemic

Conceptual, man in pain, mental and physical (Getty Images/solarseven)

The untold story of chronic pain

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tablets, pack of medicine, medicine bottles, syringes and a face mask on a blue background (Getty Images)

The pandemic-opioid vortex

Matthew Rozsa
Sad drunk man sitting at counter (Getty Images)

Despair is, quite literally, killing us

Matthew Rozsa
The Crime of the Century (HBO)

Big Pharma's opioid "original sins"

Alli Joseph
Michelle Rodriguez and Armie Hammer in "Crisis" (Quiver Productions)

Armie Hammer in woefully bad "Crisis"

Gary M. Kramer
Susan Collins (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Collins' husband holds Big Pharma stock

Roger Sollenberger
Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the Climate Forum at Georgetown University, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Andrew Yang 2020 — but not for president

Bob Hennelly
(AP Photo/Douglas Healey/Getty Images/Salon)

The Sackler family, profiteers of death

Shira Tarlo

J&J must pay for role in opioid crisis

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Michael Dwyer)

Warren unveils opioid plan

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A wall along the border between the United States and Mexico (Getty/Omar Martinez)

Walling in the opioid crisis?

Rajan Menon - TomDispatch.com
Tom Marino (Getty/Mark Wilson)

GOPer resigns after losing majority

Matthew Rozsa
The small city of Hazard, Ky., shown Tuesday, May 26, 2015, nestled in the heart of the coal fields of Appalachia and is at the heart of an injection drug use problem in the region. Public health officials warn if the region doesn't get the problem under control, it's likely to see a Hepatitis C or HIV outbreak. (AP Photo/David Stephenson) (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

Beating breast cancer in Appalachia

Rajesh Balkrishnan - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

A new crisis in the opioid epidemic

Christopher Curley - Healthline
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

Workers overdosing on the job

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
Carl Hart (Wikimedia/Shutterstock/Salon)

Time to end the drug war and legalize?

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Instants)

Rehabilitation plus rehab?

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
Children walk by drug users passed out along a street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Opioid overdoses reach record high

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

America’s addictions

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Fentanyl pills. (AP/Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office)

What a trade war could mean for opioids

Matthew Garcia - KFF Health News
Roseanne Barr and John Goodman in "Roseanne" (ABC/Adam Rose)

"Roseanne" bungles opioid addiction

Kevin Doyle
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

How to solve the opioid epidemic

Rob Cohen
Ted Cruz; Claire McCaskill; Kirsten Gillibrand (AP/Andrew Harnik/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP's 2018 plan: Party before people

Sophia Tesfaye
(AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump's new drug war: Same as the old?

Conor Lynch
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