RESOURCES

Medication for Opioid Use Disorder

"The Wrong Way to Treat Opioid Addiction," The New York Times 

"Life-saving Opioid Addiction Treatments Get a Negative Slant", Columbia Journalism Review

 
 

First Responders and Fentanyl Overdose

'A Dangerous Fentanyl Myth Lives On," Columbia Journalism Review

"You Can't Overdose On Fentanyl By Touching It," VICE

 
 

Opioid Crisis as a "White Issue"

"In Cities Where it Once Reigned, Heroin is Disappearing,"The New York Times

"Whitewashed: The African-American Opioid Epidemic," Chicago Urban League, Chicago Reporter

 

Identifying Justice-Involved People

"Open Letter: Humanizing Language for People with Criminal Records," Prison Studies Project

"Inmate. Prisoner. Other. Discussed.," The Marshall Project 

 
 

Law Enforcement "Crackdowns"

"More Imprisonment Does Not Reduce State Drug Problems," Pew Charitable Trusts

"The Federal Agency that Fuels the Opioid Crisis," The New York Times

 

Naloxone

"U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Naloxone and Opioid Overdose," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

"Understanding Naloxone," Harm Reduction Coalition 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Stigmatizing Images

"How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable," The New York Times

"I'm so Sick of Opioid Disaster Porn​," Slate

 
 
 
 
 
 

Drug Courts

"How America Overdosed on Drug Courts," Pacific Standard Magazine

"Desperate and the Dead: Courts," Boston Globe, Spotlight Investigation 

Illicit vs. Pharmaceutical Fentanyl

'The Numbers Are So Staggering,' Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year," The New York Times

"Exposure to Fentanyl Doesn't Kill. But Misinformation Does," The Philadelphia Inquirer

 

Substance Use Disorder

"The National Recovery Survey," Recovery Research Institute  

"The Science of Drug Use and Addiction: The Basics," National Institute on Drug Abuse