Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare agencies that separate mothers from their newborns.
opioid epidemic
Posted inReproductive Rights
A Mother’s Worst Nightmare
Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your child.
Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality
Inside a rehab empire
Reveal reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter have been uncovering the ways that some drug rehabs exploit their desperate clients.
Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality
She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants
“It’s like slavery,” said one rehab participant, “like we were on the plantation.”
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
Too many pills
We tell the story of of how a DEA insider tried to stop drug distribution companies from flooding America with truckloads of pain pills.