Oct 02 Watch 12:29 A community overwhelmed by opioids By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane At the epicenter of America's opioid epidemic, Huntington, West Virginia’s growing addiction problem has overwhelmed everyone from first responders to business owners to newborns. So far, the city's robust efforts to fight back haven't been enough to curb the overdoses. Continue watching
Oct 02 Saving the babies of the opioid epidemic By Laura Santhanam On bad days, five new babies are born in withdrawal from opioids at Cabell County-Huntington Hospital in southern West Virginia. In the neonatal therapeutic unit, there are zero unoccupied beds, but staff can’t turn the infants away. On one week… Continue reading
Oct 02 Column: How to talk to your kids about opioids By Margie Skeer, Tufts University Chances are good that even young teenagers will have heard about opioids and overdose deaths at some point. But Margie Skeer from Tufts University warns that pretending that opioid use is not a problem – or thinking that a child… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 4:37 Opioid addiction is the biggest drug epidemic in U.S. history. How’d we get here? By PBS News Hour Every day brings another story about the depth of the country’s opioid crisis. A rise of pain killer prescriptions from doctors and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales in the 1990s sparked a wave of addiction that shot up… Continue watching
Sep 28 Twitter chat: America’s unhealthy relationship with opioids By Lora Strum As a part of the PBS NewsHour series "American Addicted," NewsHour will host a Twitter chat at 1 p.m. ET Friday, Sept. 29 to talk about opioid use and substance abuse. Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch 6:02 Nashville’s mayor lost her son to opioids. Here’s what she thinks will save families from that pain By PBS News Hour Continue watching