Addiction in America
Photojournalist Chris Arnade travels across the US to meet the people impacted by the heroin epidemic
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Findings prompt demands for tougher action from government to protect addicts
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In areas hard-hit by the opioid epidemic, few Americans surveyed felt drugs ‘posed a crisis in their own communities’
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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
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Addiction is a frightening reality. As part of our series looking at survivors, we explore how to tackle it
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In Floyd County, Kentucky, residents grapple with joblessness and addiction. But local churches, restaurants and a Walmart serve as centers of mutual support
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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
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Response has been slow to the turmoil overrunning parts of central Appalachia – is the premise of addiction as a moral failing partially to blame?
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Overdose deaths force mothers out of hiding and they’re determined to remove the stigma associated with addiction
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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?
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Drugs cut across all economic strata but poorer neighborhoods continue to feel biggest impact as residents are unfairly defined by a seemingly endless problem
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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’
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Drug addiction is anything but black and white, says photographer documenting the lives of street addicts in the Bronx
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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
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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
'The pill mill of America': where drugs mean there are no good choices, only less awful ones