opioid

VICE News visits McPherson Square Park and Library in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia - a community being torn apart by opioid addiction.

In 2016, the state of Maine averaged one drug overdose death a day, with the vast majority of those deaths by heroin. VICE goes behind the numbers to the fishing town of Machias to meet people whose lives have been affected by the heroin epidemic.

As part of our ongoing investigation of the opioid epidemic, VICE spent a day in Chillicothe, Ohio following a social worker and meeting a family still dealing with the impact of their daughter's addiction to heroin.

Naloxone kits are essential for preventing opioid deaths. Vice demonstrates how to administer naloxone using the kit obtained for free from a Toronto pharmacy.

Guidelines on how to protect yourself from an overdose

A fentanyl addiction took over A'lisa Ramsey's life, this is how she got it back.

Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other opioids have hit crisis levels and members from Vancouver's downtown eastside

VICE News investigates the lucrative and dangerous rise of Mexican black tar heroin.

Henry Langston joins a group therapy session, where inmates talk about their looming release dates and their biggest challenges in maintaining sobriety.

VICE News looks inside the state facility in New Hampshire that's readily providing substance abuse treatment — its state prison.

VICE News investigates how effective Narcan — a nasal spray that can halt opioid overdoses instantly — has been in stopping fatal overdoses.