Drug addiction

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FILE - Miguel Laboy releases a stream of smoke while smoking cannabis in Brookline, Mass., Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Addiction

AP team covers increase in marijuana addiction with character-driven, all-formats package

DEC. 5, 2025

Drug users detained during a Taliban raid walk in line on their way to the detoxification ward of the Avicenna Medical Hospital for Drug Treatment in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of narcotics addiction, even if by force. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Afghanistan

AP all-formats team gets rare, exclusive access to Taliban crackdown on drug users

OCT. 15, 2021

Drug addiction

AP breaks news on the opioid epidemic and Purdue Pharma, with focus on victims

OCT. 30, 2020

Drug addiction

The ‘Left Behind’; AP profiles the other victims of opioids

FEB. 8, 2019

Recovering heroin addict Shawnee Wilson holds her son Kingston at her apartment in Indianapolis, Aug. 8, 2017. Despite some relapses, sheÕs been clean several months and is convinced sheÕll be able to stay clean. The clock is ticking. Federal law dictates the loss of parental rights for those whose children have been in foster care for 15 out of the previous 22 months. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Drug addiction

Reporters spotlight burgeoning crisis: More kids entering foster care due to the opioid epidemic

DEC. 21, 2017

Stacie Blodgett, who voted for Donald Trump, works in her antique and pawn shop in Aberdeen, Wash., June 13, 2017. "Has he done anything good yet?" she asks. "Has he?" She hopes Trump understands the stakes in places like this, where neighbors have been reduced to living in cars. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Drug addiction

Deep reporting, startling images reveal shaky faith and depths of despair in Trump Country

AUG. 25, 2017

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