American epidemic : reporting from the front lines of the opioid crisis
(Book)

Part one: Reporting and essays - Getting addicted / Beth Macy, first in a three-part series titled The Damage Done, The Roanoke Times, September 2, 2012 ; Heroin hits home / Beth Macy, second in a three-part series titled The Damage Done, The Roanoke Times, September 3, 2012 ; Coming clean / Beth Macy, third in a three-part series titled The Damage Done, The Roanoke Times, September 4, 2012 ; A rising death toll offers tragic proof of heroin's reach across New Jersey / Rebecca Davis O'Brien, part of a series titled Suburbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, May 5, 2013 ; The grim life of suburban addicts / Rebecca Davis O'Brien, part of a series titled Suburbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, May 6, 2013 ; Heroin's poisonous path to New Jersey / Rebecca Davis O'Brien and Tom Mashberg , part of a series titled Suburbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, December 22, 2013 ; Inside suburban drug mills, a grimy, lucrative business / Tom Mashberg and Rebecca Davis O'Brien, part of a series titled Suburbia's Deadly Secret, The Record, December 23, 2013 ; Addict. Informant. Mother. / Susan Dominus, New York Times Magazine, May 11, 2014 ; Delivered like pizza / Sam Quinones, excerpt from Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury, 2015) ; How's Amanda? a story of truth, lies and an American addiction / Eli Saslow, The Washington Post, July 23, 2016 ; Drug firms poured 780M painkillers in WV amid rise of overdoses / Charleston Gazette-Mail, December 17, 2016 ; When a drug epidemic's victims are white: how racial bias and segregation molded a gentler response to the opiod crisis / German Lopez, Vox, April 4, 2017 ; American carnage / Christopher Caldwell, First Things, April 2017 ; The addicts next door / Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, June 5, 2017 ; No family is safe from this epidemic / James Winnefeld, The Atlantic, November 29, 2017 ; King of Boise: the life and times of a teenage oxycodone dealer / Joe Eaton, Pacific Standard, November 21 2017 ; 1 son, 4 overdoses, 6 hours: a family's anguish / Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, January 21, 2018 ; The poison we pick / Andrew Sullivan, New York, February 19, 2018

Part two: Treatment and solutions -

The social roots of addiction / Gabor Mate, excerpt from In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (North Atlantic, 2010) ; The likely cause of addiction has been discovered, and it is not what you think / Johann Hari, Huffington Post, January 20, 2015 ; Addiction, connection, and the rat park study / Adi Jaffe, Psychology Today, August 14, 2015 ; H.: on heroin and harm reduction / Sarah Resnick, n+1 Issue 24, Winter 2016 ; Could this controversial treatment help more people beat heroin addiction? / Maia Szalavitz, Women's Health, June 2017 ; Finding a fix: embedded with the suburban cops confronting the opiod epidemic / Julia Lurie, Mother Jones, January/February 2018.