Opinion: Drinking by Numbers (The New York Times)

Commentary: Substance Abuse in the LGBT Community (NBC News)

A Former Addict’s Powerful Letter to His Son, Photographed (New York Magazine)

Store Owner Who Lost Customers to Overdoses Warns on Drugs (AP/ABC News)

Rehabbing Our Ideas About Addiction (The Wall Street Journal)

Addiction Treatment Industry Worried Lax Ethics Could Spell Its Doom (The Huffington Post)

Painkiller That Killed Prince Part of Dangerous Wave of New Synthetic Drugs (HealthDay)

Addiction in America: By the Numbers (ABC News)

5 Things to Do When You’ve Inherited Addiction (U.S. News & World Report)

Rural Indiana jail inmates try new drug treatment approach (AP/NBC4i.com)