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
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
"Rural Pregnant Women With Opioid Addiction Find a Doctor, Not a Judge," California Health Care Foundation
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First Responders and Fentanyl Overdose
'A Dangerous Fentanyl Myth Lives On," Columbia Journalism Review
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Harm Reduction vs. Abstinence
"In Rehab, 'Two Warring Factions': Abstinence vs. Medication", The New York Times
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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
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Identifying Justice-Involved People
"Open Letter: Humanizing Language for People with Criminal Records," Prison Studies Project
"Inmate. Prisoner. Other. Discussed.," The Marshall Project
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Supervised Consumption Facilities
"Assessing the Evidence on Supervised Drug Consumption Sites," RAND Corporation
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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
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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
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Drug-Induced Homicide Charges
"They Shared Drugs. Someone Died. Does That Make Them Killers?," The New York Times
"The Rage of Overdose Grief Makes it All Too Easy to Misdirect Blame," Filter Magazine
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Syringe Exchange Programs
"A Needle Exchange Program Stirs a Fight in Orange County," The New York Times
"Needle Exchanges Find New Champion Among Republicans," Kaiser Health News
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Addiction vs. Dependence
"Unintended Consequences: Inside the Fallout of America's Crackdown on Opioid," The Washington Post
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Opioids for Chronic Pain
"What The Media Gets Wrong About Opioids," Columbia Journalism Review
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Jails Treating Addiction
"Opioid Users are Filling Jails. Why Don't Jails Treat Them?," The New York Times
"Groundbreaking Letter from Dozens of Sheriffs and DAs Calls for MAT in Jails," Filter Magazine
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Stigmatizing Language
"The AP Learns to Talk About Addiction. Will Other Media Follow?," Undark Magazine
Stigmatizing Images
"How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable," The New York Times
"I'm so Sick of Opioid Disaster Porn​," Slate
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"Hitting Rock Bottom" & "Tough Love"
"The Tragic Pseudoscience of Forcing 'Addicts' to 'Hit Rock Bottom'," New York Magazine
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Co-dependence Myth
"Fighting Heroin Addiction With My Mother on My Side," The New York Times
"Doctor Shopping" & Pain Patients
"The Pain Refugees," Harper's
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Polysubstances
"Meth vs Opioids: America Has Two Epidemics, But Focuses on One,"Kaiser Health News
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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
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Substance Use Disorder
"The National Recovery Survey," Recovery Research Institute
"The Science of Drug Use and Addiction: The Basics," National Institute on Drug Abuse
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Fentanyl-laced Drugs
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