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Marx famously called religion “the opium of the people.” Some opiates are better for the people than others, as Chris Hedges and his co-author Joe Sacco discovered hanging with desolate West Virginia ...

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Doctors at the San Francisco VA Medical Center regularly renewed prescriptions for highly addictive narcotic painkillers for veterans they had never seen, according to a new report by the Department ...

Parents, high schools and colleges are feeding an addiction of sorts— abetting an epidemic of perfectionism and expectation while promoting a “high” of status and prestige. After two decades of ...

Along with teaching and telling stories, part of my goal here is to get important information out to those who can benefit most from it. Most drug users who quit "cold turkey" have to go through ...

A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years. A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off ...

If he could afford it, Ali Nariman would drink beer, he says. But like most Iranians, he is poor, and so takes his solace in the form of a small gray ball of opium. Subscribe to read this story ...