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‘Sometimes You Just Call To Hear Your Daughter’s Voice’
The opioid crisis has hit Russian Jews hard. Parents of addicts say the wider community should do more, but admit to being in denial. On a sweltering Wednesday night in July, on the top floor of a building that blends into the infinite strip mall of Coney Island...
Hope for teens living with addiction
When one of his friends died after overdosing on the same prescription drugs he was abusing, Sam didn't see the death as a reason to re-evaluate his own life. He just kept getting high. "Me and my friends went out, we got wrecked the day of the funeral," the...
Heroin and Pill Overdoses Claim Immigrant Victims, Catching Families Off Guard
In the last two years, the director of an Islamic funeral home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, buried six young men. Heart attacks, some neighbors said, but the whispers and witnesses said something else: heroin. The families of the men would not discuss the causes of...
How Painkillers Are Turning Young Athletes Into Heroin Addicts
A special report from L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez on the rising use and abuse of heroin among young athletes across the U.S. and the connection between sports, painkillers and heroin addiciton. Roman Montano had barely learned cursive when he was asked...
The Antidote
Can Staten Island’s middle-class neighborhoods defeat an overdose epidemic? Joseph D’Agosto, a paramedic with the Fire Department’s 23rd E.M.S. Battalion, on Staten Island, is the best person in New York City. During his twenty-four years on the job, he has saved...
Heroin’s New Hometown
On Staten Island, Rising Tide of Heroin Takes Hold The obituaries have a certain sameness to them: full of praise and regret for lives cut short, marked by telltale details and omissions. The deaths occurred at home, or at a friend’s house elsewhere on Staten Island....
Treating Addicts Using Bats, Balls
Every weekend, softball teams dot fields across the city, office bragging rights in the balance. On a recent Saturday, players from two rival teams agreed that the stakes in their league were a little higher: their lives. READ THE FULL ARTICLE Written by Sophia...
Heroin’s New Generation: Young, White and Middle Class
During what seemed like an epidemic of urban heroin use in the 1970's, the images of the typical addict -- strung out, nodding off on street corners, track marks along every vein -- were so strong that they turned off an entire generation of potential users. Those...