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    America's opioid epidemic

    • CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make

    • ER visits for opioid overdose up 30%, CDC study finds

    • Drug addiction: There is help

    • This is America on drugs: A visual guide

    • Why are opioids so addictive?

    • The many kinds of opioids

    • MIAMI, FL - MAY 10:  In this photo illustration, capsules of the drug Kratom are seen on May 10, 2016 in Miami, Florida. The herbal supplement is a psychoactive drug derived from the leaves of the kratom plant and it's been reported that people are using the supplement to get high and some states are banning the supplement.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

      Can the kratom plant help fix the opioid crisis?

    • This is fentanyl: A visual guide

    • Fentanyl: The new heroin, but deadlier

    • What to know about fentanyl

    • What is Percocet?

    • Naloxone: The 'save shot' for addicts

    • Understanding opioids and overdoses

    • 'Grey death': The powerful street drug that's puzzling authorities

      Fighting addiction

    • Drug syringe and cooked heroin on spoon

      Opioid addiction and the most controversial bathroom in New York

    • 'This is skid row': What two current heroin addicts want you to know

    • How the 'heroin heroine' saves lives from her living room

    • Heroin addicts shoot up in 'safe' bathrooms

    • Police officer's experiment to fight opioid epidemic starts with ditching uniform

    • Will Trump's wall stem flow of drugs into US?

    • North Carolina police chief helps addicts beat opioid addiction

    • 'He's blue': Louisville rattled by 151 overdoses in 4 days

    • Struggling to keep up with overdoses

    • Helping a young mother through opioid addiction and pregnancy

    • 'The meat and potatoes' of fighting drugs

    • Why painkiller addicts turn to heroin

    • Adam's story: When prescription drugs are deadly

    • What are police doing to combat illegal drugs?

      In the news

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      Opioid overdose among children nearly doubles, study says

    • Opioid shortages leave US hospitals scrambling

    • Overdose antidote availability doesn't always mean fewer deaths, study says

    • A $17,850 urine test: Industry boom amid opioid epidemic

    • What role does genetics play in opioid addiction?

    • Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US

    • Trump honors police officer who adopted baby from mom addicted to heroin

    • Compounds in herbal supplement kratom are opioids, FDA says

    • Common medication must be repackaged to help tackle opioid epidemic, FDA says

    • Opioid commission member: Our work is a 'sham'

    • FDA strengthens warning on opioid cold medicine

    • Drug overdoses contribute to record number of organ donors

    • This fire department responds to more ODs than fires

        What's next?

      • Vaccines for opioid addiction nowhere close to reality, experts say

      • Cigna to stop covering most OxyContin prescriptions

      • CVS will limit opioid prescriptions to 7 days

      • The opioid epidemic is so bad that librarians are learning how to treat overdoses

      • The new front line in opioid abuse fight: public restrooms

      • 2 governors, 2 different approaches to fight opioid crisis

      • How to create opioids for the masses

      • Could this lead to home-brew heroin?

      • The new 'Just say no to drugs'

      • FDA requires 'black box' warning on painkillers

      • Why opioid overdose deaths seem to happen in spurts

        Addiction in the family

      • Here, heroin spares no one, not even the sheriff's wife

      • Couple fosters 13 children left by addicted parents

      • A grandma's new role: Raising grandkids amid the heroin epidemic

      • Mother sees hope amid opioid crisis

      • A generation of heroin orphans

      • Experts say detoxing while pregnant can be safe

      • 5-year-old boy saves parents who overdosed on heroin, police say

      • Beating heroin is more than 12 steps; it's 18 years and going

      • Father loses son to addiction, ends up in recovery himself and then ...

      • Being an addict's mom: 'It's just a very, very sad place'

      • From bank robber to family man -- a story of recovery

        Opinions

      • A huge step backward on opioids

      • We should have made the opioid crisis OUR problem from the start

      • Loving and losing an addict

      • Mother who lost addicted son: The system is 'broken'

      • The secret to fighting U.S. heroin epidemic

      • We are creating a nation of addicts

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