HEROIN

From policing to harm reduction, award winning drugs writer, JS Rafaeili explores every aspect of the drugs world through a series of interviews with leading experts.

India’s northernmost state Himachal Pradesh is in the grips of a heroin crisis, as collateral damage of border state Punjab’s War on Drugs against the alleged Pakistan funded Narco Terrorism.

The former head of a drugs gang reveals how he made millions by building up his reputation, evading authorities and, at times, using violence.

VICE heads to Michigan to see how the opioid epidemic has hurt Dearborn’s Muslim community.

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.

Prescription opioids are effective in treating pain, but they're also highly addictive and can act as a gateway to heroin abuse. Vice went to Philadelphia to meet some men in recovery and learn about the thin line between treatment and addiction.

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.

Documentary photographer Molly Harris talks about her stark and telling portrait series 'Closer to Heaven,' and the intricacies of living with heroin addiction as a sex worker in Adelaide.

Editor of Noisey Australia Tim Scott talks with Uncle Jack Charles about his life.

Tobacco obsession in Indonesia; treating heroin addiction with hallucinogens in Mexico.

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