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Topic: Substance Use

Bottles of the generic prescription pain medication Buprenorphine are seen in a pharmacy (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Pregnant, in jail and denied treatment

Elizabeth Hlavinka
LEWISVILLE, NC - March 11: Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone her daughter Toria filled the day before she died at her home in Lewisville, NC, Monday, March 11, 2019. Stevens lost her 22-year-old daughter Toria to an opioid overdose last year after years of her daughter struggling with addiction following a violent sexual assault. (Photo by Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Medicaid cuts may worsen overdose deaths

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Fruits of an Iboga tree (STEEVE JORDAN/AFP via Getty Images)

African psychedelic plant may be healing

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Trump go after harm reduction?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Therapy appointment with a teenage patient (Getty Images/fotostorm)

The link between trauma and addiction

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Passing a joint at a house party (Getty Images/ sturti)

Study challenges "gateway drug" theory

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Young man refusing alcoholic drinks (Getty Images/Vyacheslav Dumchev)

Meet the "sober curious" generation

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A chair is seen in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 2020. - Patients sit in the sensory controlled environment while on their ketamine trip. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ketamine's risks are under scrutiny

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A staff member packs overdose prevention kits, including Narcan nasal spray used to treat narcotic overdoses in an emergency situation, at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on April 24, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdoses decline but not for everyone

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pro-abortion rights activists demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pregnancy criminalization rising: report

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The young woman holds onto the prescription bottle while she listens to the doctor (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

FDA calls for new meds for stimulant use

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Puppet master hand, manipulation, concept (Getty Images/tatianazaets)

How to stop the rise of forced drug use

Jerel Ezell, Heather Phillips
Paramedics carrying patient in ambulance at night (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

How Oregon's drug policy impact overdose

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Rushing ambulance at night, US (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Study maps overdose crisis' fourth wave

Elizabeth Hlavinka