opioid

VICE News gets an intimate glimpse at the impact the opioid crisis is having.

Corporate corruption and military pacts with drug lords fuel the addiction wave.

VICE follows a mobile medical clinic as it travels through opioid ravaged rural communities in Pennsylvania.

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

WARNING: This film contains graphic images of drug use. Steel Town Down traces the cycle of drug use in a struggling Canadian steel town on the US border as it grapples with a dramatic rise in overdoses linked to fentanyl.

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.

Guidelines on how to protect yourself from an overdose

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

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