Drug Abuse

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  • Why drug tests flunk

    If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way.
    By Janelle Brown April 22, 2002

  • No relief

    The war on drugs is preventing many Americans from getting desperately needed pain medicine.
    By Damien Cave April 4, 2002

  • Robert Downey Jr. deserves our love and protection

    The most extravagantly gifted actor of his generation is also a drug addict who has harmed no one. Jailing him is as barbaric as treating the sick with leeches.
    By Michael Sragow November 29, 2000

  • The drug war's Tweedledee

    Does National Institute on Drug Abuse chief Alan Leshner push propaganda over science in his close coordination with drug czar Barry McCaffrey?
    By Arthur Allen October 10, 2000

  • "A policeman had to pry me away from him"

    As far as the law is concerned, once your dad is in prison, he's not your dad anymore.
    By Nell Bernstein June 14, 2000

  • Immunized against addiction

    Can a simple vaccine kill the appetite for cocaine? Researchers may soon find out.
    By Dawn MacKeen April 26, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Should gays pack heat? Plus: Feminism is dangerous to women? Baloney! Methadone won't work alone.
    March 17, 2000

  • 'Roid rage

    Steroid abuse can cause everything from sexual voracity to violence; some people take them only for cosmetic reasons.
    By Andrew Taber November 18, 1999

  • Gift of the flower

    After drug-addiction and homelessness, a hopeless man rediscovers the healing potential of his childhood fascination.
    By Tom Wolbarst October 23, 1999

  • Death in custody from "excited delirium"?

    Some coroners say suspects are dying not from police brutality but an obscure medical disorder.
    By Christian Parenti September 29, 1999

  • The real Bush drug scandal

    Texas Gov. George W. Bush has presided over a crackdown on first-time drug offenders from poor neighborhoods like Houston's Third Ward Bottoms.
    By Debra Dickerson September 14, 1999

  • Harvard and heroin

    I coasted to an Ivy League degree as a drug addict, but forever damaged the bond between mother and son.
    By Seth Mnookin August 27, 1999

  • My son, the junkie

    I finally had to let him save, or kill, himself.
    By Wendy Mnookin August 27, 1999

  • Millennial family values

    Sociologist Stephanie Coontz on how American leaders have spent more time on the Clinton sex scandal than they have on issues that will affect the families of the future.
    By Stephanie Coontz November 30, 1998

  • Sacred rites of an acid house

    Beyond the bad food and the bad poetry, a tribe of students seek life's mysteries in a collective hallucination.
    By Isaac Zaur September 21, 1998

  • Cracking down

    Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
    By Jeff Stryker July 10, 1998

  • Cracking down

    Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
    By Jeff Stryker June 30, 1998

  • Resurrection Man

    Richard Price talks about getting off drugs, getting out of Hollywood and his new novel, based on the Susan Smith case.
    By Dwight Garner May 13, 1998

  • Just because I'm HIV-positive, can't I bear children

    She was a former prostitute and drug addict. She was infected with the AIDS virus. But Patti Radigan felt that motherhood could be her salvation. And a pioneering San Francisco clinic agreed to help her.
    By Lori Leibovich November 25, 1997
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