President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for drug dealers. But would that include doctors and pharmaceutical company CEOs?

During a speech awash in horrific oversimplifications in service of depicting America as the One Great Country, Donald Trump offered a particularly grim anecdote about the human cost of the opioid epidemic during Tuesday night’s State of the Union.

The Trump administration’s commission on the opioid crisis is a sham that will not produce meaningful public health outcomes, according to a member of the Trump administration’s sham commission on the opioid crisis.

A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics indicates that life expectancy in the U.S. is in decline for the second year in a row, especially where people aged 15-34 were concerned, in large part due to the staggering impact of the unchecked opioid epidemic. Of the 63,600 deaths in 2016 attributed to…

Friday night dinner service at the Salvation Army is halfway over and the front window is fogged with the heat coming off the steam trays. A long stretch of mild weather in Iowa City has finally given over to the cold, and people are trickling outside in heavy layers to smoke and shoot the shit. Sarah Ziegenhorn and…

Last week, President Donald Trump declared America’s opioid crisis a public health emergency, but another and perhaps even more meaningful part of the story happened more than 2,000 miles away in a wealthy gated community in Phoenix, AZ.

Donald Trump appealed to his late brother’s struggle with addiction while declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday afternoon, an issue he plans to tackle in part by employing “really tough, really big advertising,” telling kids in a very serious voice that drugs are “bad,” and allocating…

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