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Opioid epidemic
Opioid epidemic news and analysis from The Nation
May 4, 2018
Legislation has been introduced in at least 15 states to tax the companies that make and distribute painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin.
April 24, 2018
As the death toll from the opioid crisis rises, the city is exploring a humane alternative.
April 3, 2018
By putting naloxone into the hands of people just released from state prisons, New York hopes to curb this terrible crisis.
March 7, 2018
Though African Americans remain disproportionately impacted by the criminal-justice system, drug laws are locking up an increasing number of whites as well.
March 5, 2018
Progressives should learn from the past to respond to the overdose epidemic.
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February 8, 2018
A report by the Defense Department’s inspector general raises questions about a combatant command with a history of scandals.
January 31, 2018
Dispatches from the urban resistance, from Philadelphia to Seattle and beyond
December 18, 2017
Instead of criminalizing drug use, the Department of Justice should do these three things.
December 15, 2017
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
December 15, 2017
Why do the manufacturers of naloxone, the life-saving overdose antidote, keep hiking the price?
