The post on 27 deaths out of 100 people receiving methadone in primary care over 17 years was the most frequently visited piece of writing in the year
Alcohol holding up methadone treatment
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Heroin on prescription: patient stories
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Insite Inside Out
Insite, "is that the place where people shoot up heroin? Do you shoot heroin?" a border officer asked me when he saw the sign on my T-shirt. I was
Off the record: addictions in medical schools
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Optimizing writing schemes for addiction researchers
The "coolest" science writing isn't necessarily found in the science press. - Surgeon and New Yorker contributor Gawande in The Best American Science