Enlarge this image A doctor at a Boston Medical Center clinic counsels a patient who has become addicted to opioid painkillers, and…
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Rural Colorado’s Opioid Connections Might Hold Clues To Better Treatment
by NPR January 23, 2017Enlarge this image Melissa Morris outside her home in Sterling, Colo. She quit using heroin in 2012, and now relies on the…
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A Peer Recovery Coach Walks The Front Lines Of America’s Opioid Epidemic
by NPR December 27, 2016Charlie Oen’s battle with addiction started when he was 16 and his family moved to Lima, Ohio. It was the last stop…
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Enlarge this image John Evard, 70, at the Las Vegas Recovery Center last July. Evard, a retired tax attorney, checked into a…
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‘Drug Dealer, M.D.’: Misunderstandings And Good Intentions Fueled Opioid Epidemic
by NPR December 15, 2016Enlarge this image Endai Huedl/fStop/Getty Images Endai Huedl/fStop/Getty Images America’s attitude toward pain has shifted radically over the past century. Psychiatrist Anna…
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Enlarge this image Image Source/Getty Images Image Source/Getty Images One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is…
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Enlarge this image At his home in Haverhill, Mass., Colin LePage leafs through newspapers he shows to middle-schoolers to educate them about…