American epidemic: reporting from the front lines of the opioid crisis

Foreword / by Leslie Jamison

Introduction

Getting addicted / Beth Macy, First in a three-part series title The Damage Done, The Roanoke Times, September 2, 2012

Heroin hits home / Beth Macy, Second in a three-part series title The Damaged Done, The Roanoke Times, September 3, 2012

Coming Clean / Beth Macy, Third in a three-part series title The Damage Done, The Roanoke Times, September 4, 2012

A rising death toll offers tragic proof of heroin's reach across New Jersey / Rebecca Davis O'Brien, part of a series titled Suburbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, May 5, 2013

The grim life of suburban addicts / Rebecca Davis O'Brien, part of a series title Suburbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, May 6, 2013

Heroin's poisonous path to New Jersey / Rebecca Davis O'Brien and Tom Mashbert, Part of a series title Suburbia’s Deadly Secret, The Record, December 22, 2013

Inside suburban drug mills, a grimy, lucrative business / Tom Mashberg and Rebecca Davis O'Brien, Part of a series title Subrbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, December 22, 2013

Addict, Informant, Mother / Susan Dominus, New York Times Magazine, May 11, 2014

Delivered like pizza / Sam Quinones, Excerpt from Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury, 2015)

How's Amanda? A story of truth, lies and an American addiction / Eli Saslow, The Washington Post, July 23, 2016

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses / Eric Eyre, Charleston Gazette-Mail, December 17, 2016

When a drug epidemic's victims are white: How racial bias and segregation molded a gentler response to the opioid crisis / German Lopez, Vox, April 4, 2017

American carnage / Christopher Caldwell, First Things, April 2017

The addicts next door / Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, June 5, 2017

No family is safe from this epidemic / James Winnefeld, The Atlantic, November 29, 2017

King of Boise: the life and times of a teenage oxycodone dealer / Joe Eaton, Pacific Standard, November 21, 2017

1 son, 4 overdoses, 6 hours: a family's anguish / Katharine Q. Seely, The New York Times, January 21, 2018

The poison we pick / Andrew Sullivan, New York, February 19, 2018

Part Two: Treatment and Solutions

The social roots of addiction / Gabor Mate, excerpt form In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (North Atlantic, 2010)

The likely cause of addiction has been discovered, and it is not what you think / Johann Hari, Huffington Post, January 20, 2015

Addiction, connection, and the Rat Park Study / Adi Jaffe, Psychology Today, August 14, 2015

H.: on heroin and harm reduction / Sarah Resnick, n+1 Issue 24, Winter 2016

Could this controversial treatment help more people beat heroin addiction? / Maia Szalavitz, Women's Health, June 2017

Finding a fix: embedded with the suburban cops confronting the opioid epidemic / Julia Lurie, Mother Jones, January/February 2018

Gratitude List

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