Massachusetts public health officials say a program to distribute medicine for heroin addicts to take in case of an overdose has helped prevent more than 1,000 overdose ...
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. April Lee was still ...
Inmates battling drug addiction spend half hour in a courtyard while undergoing detox at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, NM. (Roberto E. Rosales for Here & Now/2019 ...
SELDEN, N.Y. (WABC) -- Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. "I know what I know. He was sensitive. He had a great heart," Lori Carbonaro ...
How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...
FREEPORT, NY (WABC) -- Acting Nassau County DA Madeline Singas on Wednesday announced her office's commitment to close a deadly treatment gap for heroin addicts. It is part of her three-pronged ...
Over the past four years, more than 200 people have died annually of overdoses in Oakland. Yet just across the Bay, San Francisco's drug epidemic is deadlier. Although Oakland has more people per ...
On May 12, 2015, two Newark police officers approached Patricia Roos’s front door. Watching from her home office window, the Rutgers sociology professor knew instinctively what their arrival meant, ...
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