Dark Shadows: Iran-Contra, Secret Wars & Covert Operations, Part 3
INTRODUCTION: This is the third of a five-part series exploring the Iran-Contra Affair and its consequences. Part 1 described the Reagan Administration’s secret wars and illegal arms deals exposed in...
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 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 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 ArticleOpioid crisis gets personal for judge who helped troubled youth
The Honorable Maurice H. Hilliard Jr., 84, awoke at sunrise that first Saturday morning in April, 2016. Morning dew clung to the first budding blooms of spring as he walked outside his Roswell home. He...
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 ArticleThe Last Shot
by Alec MacGillis ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The Last Shot Amid a surging opiate crisis, the maker of the anti-addiction drug Vivitrol skirted the usual sales...
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 ArticleA painkiller’s deadly price: Fentanyl epidemic robs Georgia family of mother,...
Somebody help me! Pat Strickland was about to watch a movie in the den of her suburban Atlanta home two years ago, when she heard her 11-year-old grandson screaming upstairs. She rushed up the ten...
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 ArticleThe new war on drugs
Not every state is responding to the opioid epidemic with just public health policies. Gov. Matt Bevin had a promise for Kentuckians in his State of the Commonwealth speech in February: “Criminal...
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 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 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 ArticleSheriff: Cheaper drug that's 50x stronger than heroin slams Syracuse's suburbs
Syracuse, NY -- There's a new drug in town that's 50 times stronger than heroin and more profitable for drug dealers, Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway warned. It's called fentanyl, and it's hitting...
View ArticleDoctor charged with selling pain pills pleads not guilty
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey doctor has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sold prescriptions for highly addictive opioid...
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