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Addiction in America

Photojournalist Chris Arnade travels across the US to meet the people impacted by the heroin epidemic

7 November 2023

  • Matthew Perry

    Understanding the science of addiction – podcast

    After Matthew Perry’s death, a clip of the actor debating the science of addiction went viral. Ian Sample discusses our understanding of addiction with the director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, Nora Volkow

19 July 2019

  • Jack Ritchie

    Problem gamblers much more likely to attempt suicide – study

    Findings prompt demands for tougher action from government to protect addicts

26 July 2018

  • A survey by the Laguna Treatment Hospital in Aliso Viejo, California, has found that Americans are not likely to recognize drug addiction in their communities. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo

    Study finds Americans more likely to see opioid crisis nationally than locally

    In areas hard-hit by the opioid epidemic, few Americans surveyed felt drugs ‘posed a crisis in their own communities’

28 April 2018

  • Brian Broome 5

    Amid the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict

    America’s social hierarchies rule everything – even the opioid epidemic. You don’t have to dig deep to find the hypocrisy and insult to people of color

22 June 2017

  • OxyContin<br>FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Vermont Health Department is working to ensure that health care providers across the state are ready for new rules that take effect on July 1, 2017, which regulate how opioid-based painkillers are prescribed to patients who need them, while minimizing the risk of abuse. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

    Route to recovery: how people overcome an opioid addiction

    Addiction is a frightening reality. As part of our series looking at survivors, we explore how to tackle it

17 May 2017

  • Drugs in Portsmouth, Ohio

    'The pill mill of America': where drugs mean there are no good choices, only less awful ones

    For six days in Portsmouth, Ohio, I keep trying to fool myself. Eventually, I am unable to just watch and listen

7 September 2016

  • young woman raises hands in church

    Pride and pain in Trump country: 'We all grew up poor, but we had a community'

    In Floyd County, Kentucky, residents grapple with joblessness and addiction. But local churches, restaurants and a Walmart serve as centers of mutual support

14 May 2016

  • Shelly at the rehab centre

    My heroin addict friend: thrown in jail, a rebound in rehab – now Shelly has hope

    A photographer describes how Rikers and a long-term rehab facility in the Bronx helped a subject who has become his friend have a chance for a future

9 May 2016

  • Kingsport, Tennessee

    America's opioid addiction: 'I ended up selling all my valuable stuff to buy pills'

    Response has been slow to the turmoil overrunning parts of central Appalachia – is the premise of addiction as a moral failing partially to blame?

11 April 2016

  • Penny

    Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic

    Overdose deaths force mothers out of hiding and they’re determined to remove the stigma associated with addiction

5 March 2016

  • mayor Ithaca

    War against harm: Ithaca's mayor is leading the charge against the heroin epidemic

    Ithaca is proposing a supervised facility where users can shoot up in front of a nurse and not be arrested. Can Svante Myrick convince the city it’s a good idea?

7 January 2016

  • Buffalo and drugs

    In east Buffalo, drug addiction's grip is tightened by decades-long cycle

    Drugs cut across all economic strata but poorer neighborhoods continue to feel biggest impact as residents are unfairly defined by a seemingly endless problem

2 December 2015

  • Shelly in the Bronx

    My heroin addict friend: 'As her rehab story collapsed, my anger increased'

    A photographer reflects on the life of a subject who has become his friend as she asks for a ride to rehab, promising that she is ‘done playing games’

28 October 2015

  • Shelly

    My heroin addict friend: 'When Shelly starts using again, I will be there for her'

    Drug addiction is anything but black and white, says photographer documenting the lives of street addicts in the Bronx

16 April 2015

  • Beauty on the plane

    My friend Beauty almost turned her life around. Now she's in Rikers – and lost in a hopelessly broken system

    Beauty returned home to Oklahoma in December to seek refuge from the streets of the Bronx. A month later she was forcibly brought back, and today she remains trapped in an inflexible and overwhelmed legal system

5 February 2015

  • beauty green tights

    Bronx Beauty: struggling with addiction, my friend still made it home

    Chris Arnade has spent the past four years of his life documenting the lives of street addicts. The day after Christmas, he drove cross-country with his friend Beauty to help her reunite with her family
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