Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Brian Mann is NPR's first national addiction correspondent. Over the past six months, I've been ...

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is happening across Montana Saturday. Drug Take Back Day underscores the agency's dedication to ...