Prescriptions for painkillers brought about the explosion in heroin use in...
Andi Peterson, seen in a mugshot (left) and several years after treatment (right). Andi Peterson never thought twice about taking Percocet. After all, the powerful painkiller had been prescribed by a...
View ArticleWhat's behind growing push to punish dealers in fatal ODs?
Faced with an alarming increase in opioid addiction, a growing number of prosecutors are charging dealers not just for selling but for the deaths of customers who overdose on heroin or fentanyl. Here...
View Articletreatment for crack addicts than today's heroin users
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — When Leola Bivins was first sent away for dealing drugs, she was a 22-year-old high school dropout with a 2-year-old daughter at home. Addiction was the center of the life she...
View ArticleDrug-addicted, dangerous and licensed for the operating room
Dr. Joely Nelson slumped from a living room chair onto a pillow on the hearth of the fireplace, her face scorched from the heat, her dead body riddled with drugs. A fellow anesthesiologist found her...
View ArticleDrugmakers fought state opioid limits amid crisis
The makers of prescription painkillers have adopted a 50-state strategy that includes hundreds of lobbyists and millions in campaign contributions to help kill or weaken measures aimed at stemming the...
View ArticleREAD: Full text of Christie's 2017 State of the State
Full text of the governor's 2017 State of the State address. TRENTON -- Gov. Chris Christie gave his seventh State of the State address on Tuesday. Here's the full prepared text of the governor's...
View ArticleLive fact check: Chris Christie's 2017 State of the State address
Follow along as we annotate the speech with fact checks, previous coverage and additional context Gov. Chris Christie is scheduled to give his 2016 State of the State speech in Trenton Tuesday. We'll...
View Article'It was a conspiracy': recovering addicts wage legal battle over prescription...
Groundbreaking lawsuit unfolds in West Virginia as ‘pill-pushing’ doctors and pharmacists are being accused of colluding with medical industry to get rich...
View ArticleSummit County gets tough on heroin deaths, charging drug suppliers with...
When Charles Marotto was recently sentenced to five years in prison for providing a fatal hit of heroin to a man he considered a friend, few people left the courtroom happy. Not Marotto. Not the...
View ArticleDoctor accused in overdose death pleads not guilty
A Little Falls doctor alleged by the state to be a major source of oxycodone on the streets of northern New Jersey�pleaded not guilty Friday to a role in�the�overdose death of a�Clifton man�who...
View ArticleKRISTINE
It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleThe Dukes of Oxy: How a Band of Teen Wrestlers Built a Smuggling Empire
The gutted teddy bears were tossed everywhere, the slit carcasses and polyester innards strewn on the floor and kitchen table along with tens of thousands of dollars in fifties and hundreds — stacks of...
View ArticleA Second Chance
Prologue Breana and Chandler: Siblings Lost Having to bury your own child is a parent’s worst nightmare. Michelle , a 49-year-old former account executive at American Express from Peoria, Arizona, has...
View ArticleArrest figures show Paterson drugs a regional problem
PATERSON — In a city where authorities say millions of dollars' worth of illegal drugs are sold every year, narcotics arrests happen all the time. On April 5, for example, a 23-year-old woman was...
View ArticleEvery 25 Seconds
Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View Article“Not in it for Justice”
Summary On the night of November 2, 2015, Maria Soto’s 18-year-old son Daniel went out with friends and did not come home. At 1:30 p.m. the next day, Maria finally got a call: Daniel had been stabbed...
View ArticleHow some California drug rehab centers exploit addiction
Rehab Riviera Navigate to a section: Part 1 | Some rehabs use loopholes, Obamacare to exploit addicts Part 2 | Many recovery centers fail to deliver Part 3 | Recovery homes can make tough neighbors...
View ArticleHow some Southern California drug rehab centers exploit addiction
Rehab Riviera Navigate to a section: Part 1 | Some rehabs use loopholes, Obamacare to exploit addicts Part 2 | Many recovery centers fail to deliver Part 3 | Recovery homes can make tough neighbors...
View Article“Not in it for Justice”
Summary On the night of November 2, 2015, Maria Soto’s 18-year-old son Daniel went out with friends and did not come home. At 1:30 p.m. the next day, Maria finally got a call: Daniel had been stabbed...
View ArticleSaving lives should be priority, not making drug arrests
Follow @csteditorials Prosecutors across the nation have begun charging people with murder if they shared illegal drugs such as heroin with a friend or family member who died as a result. Now there’s a...
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