Title: At the heart of Canada’s fentanyl crisis, extreme efforts that U.S. cities may follow - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-the-heart-of-canadas-fentanyl-crisis-extreme-efforts-that-us-cities-may-follow/2018/02/11/5e7dd59e-0624-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html?utm_term=.a1ba8a0ce95d/

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "At The Heart of Canada's Fentanyl Crisis, Extreme Efforts That U.S. Cities May Follow," posted on the Washington Post Website on February 11, 2017. The article looks at Canada's experimental "harm reduction" strategy of combating opioid addiction by allowing safe houses to inject drugs and the possibility of U.S. cities trying to copy its success.

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Title: Doctor's Duty to Ease Pain At Issue in Calif. Lawsuit - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/07/doctors-duty-to-ease-pain-at-issue-in-calif-lawsuit/c5cce996-344e-40d3-b656-c5da7338e050/

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Doctor's Duty to Ease Pain At Issue in California Lawsuit," by Susan Okiewas published on the Washington Post Website on May 7, 2001. The article gives the background on one of the first lawsuits against a physician for the undertreatment of pain. The case, originating in California, involves a patient's family suing a doctor (following the patient's death) claiming that the prescribed drugs were not powerful enough to reduce the patient's pain and reflected the growing influence of patients and advocacy groups to demand better pain management.

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Title: Does Medical Marijuana Decrease Opioid Use or Boost It?

URL: http://wapo.st/2HcLFyS?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.d84400c6f602

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Does Medical Marijuana Decrease Opioid Use or Boost It?" published on the Washington Post Website on April 20, 2018. The article looks at the correlation between opioid users and medical marijuana users, and how conflicting data allows scientists and politicians to state their cases using information that fits their viewpoints.

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Title: Fighting Fentanyl

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/fentanyl-epidemic-trump-administration/?utm_term=.4645e488d2ab

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Fighting Fentanyl," by Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, Steven Rich, and Shelby Hanssen published on the Washington Post Website on May 22, 2019. The article describes the increasing prevalnece of fentanyl the gap in resources to adequately address it's impact on American communities.

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Title: NIH Director Francis Collins on America’s opioid crisis - The Washington Post

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/postlive/nih-directorfrancis-collins-on-opioid-crisis-in-the-us/2017/09/20/cfb04e68-9e41-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_video.html?utm_term=.6815562eea53/

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: A Washington Post Live video featuring the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director discussing the role of the NIH in combating the opioid epidemic in the United States.

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Title: Opioid-addicted zebrafish attempt to get a hit 2,000 times in 50 minutes, study says - The Washington Post

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/opioid-addicted-zebrafish-attempt-to-get-a-hit-2000-times-in-50-minutes-study-says/?utm_term=.b11e3932140d

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Opioid-addicted zebrafish attempt to get a hit 2,000 times in 50 minutes, study says," by Travis M. Andrews was published on the Washington Post Website on September 1, 2017. The article describes a study run by researchers at the University of Utah published in the journal of Behavioral Brain Research that looked at opioid addicted zebrafish with the hope of learning something that will be useful in treating opioid addicted humans.

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Title: The disturbing reason behind the spike in organ donations

URL: http://wapo.st/2vlsDk2?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.77944f92d81b

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "The disturbing reason behind the spike in organ donations," by Cleve R. Wootson, Jr. published on the Washington Post Website on April 17, 2018. The article covers the increase in organ donations as a result of the uptick in opioid-related deaths.

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Title: Why doctors don’t use alternatives to opioids

URL: http://wapo.st/2HeBRn7?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.7d7e2d2e189b

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: blog post titled, "Why doctors don't use alternatives to opioids," by Keith Humphreys published on the Washington Post Website's "Wonkblog" on April 12, 2018. The post explores some reasons why doctors continue to prescribe opioids when confronted with patients who describe pain, including pharmaceutical marketing and lack of training, and advocates for Congressional support of the development of non-opioid pain treatment.

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URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/29/the-greatest-drug-fiends-in-the-world-an-american-opioid-crisis-in-1908/?utm_term=.e914b60e1902

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "From Teddy Roosevelt to Trump: How Drug Companies Triggered An Opioid Crisis A Century Ago," published on the Washington Post Website on October 17, 2017. The article looks at America's first narcotic epidemic at the turn of the 20th century, and how a combination of tough federal legislation and new attitudes among doctors helped eventually curb the crisis.

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