Opinion: Falling through the gaps in the addiction treatment system (Newsday)

Prince’s Close Friends Reveal How His Painkiller Addiction Began (Us Weekly)

Life or death: A heroin addict’s last day before rehab (CBS News)

Politics In Real Life: Dying From Overdose While Waiting For Treatment (NPR)

Macklemore Meets President Obama To Talk Opioid Addiction (Billboard)

Blog: Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause (Scientific American)

Hooked: One Family’s Ordeal With Fentanyl (The Wall Street Journal)

Editorial: Congress Wakes Up to the Opioid Epidemic (The New York Times)

Your Kid on Heroin: It Could Happen (U.S. News & World Report)

The Rehabilitation Paradox (The New Yorker)