Blog: Efforts grow to tackle America’s heroin crisis (The Economist)

Michael Botticelli Is Not in Favor of Legalization (The New York Times) 

How Drug Warriors Helped to Fuel the Opioid Epidemic (The Atlantic)

Is Addiction a Learning Disorder? (Slate)

The surprising disappearance of flakka, the synthetic drug that pushed South Florida to the brink (The Washington Post)

Elizabeth Vargas Opens Up About Her Alcoholism: ‘If I Can Help One Person Feel Less Alone, Then I’m Really Happy About That’ (People)

Why Do the Feds Usually Try to Unlock Phones? It’s Drugs, Not Terrorism (Wired)

Inside A Small Brick House At The Heart Of Indiana’s Opioid Crisis (NPR)

Opinion: Amplify Obama’s Drug Abuse Actions (U.S. News & World Report)

How social media is destroying the lives of teen girls (New York Post)