Far from sympathetic, the black-and-white image and the harsh light gives the housing project the feel of a prison. The visual narrative around the opioid crisis has largely sidestepped criminality.

Drug users are testing opioids that are less prone to abuse than current drugs. David Crow of the Financial Times tells NPR's Rachel Martin the drugs could also boost profits for pharmaceutical firms.

Portsmouth, Ohio, is trying. But when an area gets labeled — say Appalachia with poverty or Chicago with gun violence — how do you get people to realize it is also about a lot more?

This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 13, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS ... “Erasure of a Spinal Memory Trace of Pain by a Brief, High-Dose Opioid Administration. ...

Nationwide, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention numbers show 84,181 opioid overdose deaths in 2022 to 81,083 and 81 ...

While the opioid epidemic continues to ravage American communities -- opioid-related fatalities tripled from 2000 to 2015 -- colleges largely have been spared by the crisis so far. The opioid epidemic ...