Opinion: Gingrich, Kennedy and Jones: Treat America’s Opioid Epidemic With Medication (Time)

Editorial: 12-step programs not the only way to beat the opioid crisis (am New York)

The Missing Voice, The Missing Piece: Where Are The Family Members of People in Recovery? (The Huffington Post)

Opinion: Can You Get Over an Addiction? (The New York Times)

The heroin epidemic was once mostly immune from politics. Not anymore. (The Washington Post)

An Enduring Heroin Market Shapes an Enforcer’s Rise and Fall (The New York Times)

I Hid My Painkiller Addiction from Everyone – Even My Husband (Good Housekeeping)

How to catch drones smuggling drugs into prison (CNN)

A Small Town Bands Together To Provide Opioid Addiction Treatment (NPR)

Sobering Up, And Facing The Reality Of Sex Without ‘Liquid Courage’ (NPR)