This chart was designed by two infectious disease modelers, Hawre Jalal and Donald S. Burke, who made a grim discovery while examining the leading causes of death in America. They plotted ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Brian Mann is NPR's first national addiction correspondent. Over the past six months, I've been ...

PHILADELPHIA — When Justin Carlyle, 23, began experimenting with drugs a decade ago, he found himself part of a generation of young Americans caught in the devastating wave of harm caused by fentanyl ...

Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs. By Jan Hoffman The message ...

What’s driving the permanent crisis of drug addiction? To express the ambient feeling that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, and on its ...