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Healing Appalachia, a music festival that raises awareness for and celebrates recovery from opioid addiction, is moving from West Virginia to eastern Kentucky this September with the fest’s co-founder Tyler Childers headlining alongside Chris Stapleton. The benefit concert will take place on Sept. 19th and 20th in Ashland, Kentucky, on …

The family behind one of the most addictive substances in the world, peddled to patients by their own doctors who downplayed their harmful effects, is not shielded from liability for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Sackler …

D RUGS NEVER SEEMED like a problem to Elvie Shane. Dabbling in cocaine, meth, and heroin were all part of the future country singer’s college days in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Even when he got hooked on speed, the dangers didn’t seem real. He could take it or leave it, he …

This article was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with Rolling Stone. As a boy, Rabih Darwiche would sprint for cover when the monthly test sirens ripped through his quiet suburban Detroit neighborhood. Darwiche’s terror was about more than the earsplitting roar alone: The tornado alarms took him back …

Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler. She has to be, given that she’s stuck in Florida in the year of our lord 2011, trying to figure out the next step for her and her daughter, Phoebe. On the plus side, Liza has grit, …

Cults come in many shapes, sizes and forms, not all of them involving a charismatic figurehead, secluded hideaway, or cache of weapons. Sometimes, as in Netflix’s lively new Sackler family takedown Painkiller, the angels of death are short-skirted sales reps, heroin Barbies who scream their heads off at sales “conferences” …

H ow many ways can a man kill himself before the devil finally says, “Well done?” For Rooster, the answer is unknowable: His seven serious bids didn’t take. There was the time he hanged himself from a tree by the river and swung there, counting heartbeats, till he died. (An …

An over-the-counter nasal spray version of Narcan, the medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration today, March 29. The move means the medication, also known as naloxone, will be available in drug stores, grocery stores, gas stations, and …

The Biden administration proposed tighter rules for telehealth prescriptions of certain medications in an attempt to combat the country’s opioid epidemic. The Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday announced plans to reinstate federal requirements for drugs classified as controlled substances that were eased during the Covid-19 pandemic. The move would shrink …

The U.S. Army Special Forces, better known as the Green Berets, has a serious problem with substance abuse and fatal drug overdoses. The same is true of the Army’s two most important infantry divisions: the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. That’s the takeaway of data released by …