opioid addiction
Resurrection drug? FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan amid opioid crisis
By Kathryn Post — April 6, 2023
(RNS) — ‘I’m afraid that we’re not to a resurrection era for people who use drugs,’ said one harm reduction advocate.
In ‘Raising Lazarus,’ Beth Macy summons the stone rollers
By Elizabeth E. Evans — November 4, 2022
(RNS) — A new book chronicles an addiction-recovery movement known as 'harm reduction,' an alternative to strict abstinence that has drawn many people of faith as helpers.
Former Sojourners staffer recounts personal opioid crisis in ‘Addiction Nation’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 3, 2019
(RNS) — In 'Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals About Us,' published last month, Timothy McMahan King combines his story with Christian theology and scientific studies of addiction.
What the church can do to help opioid addicts: A Q&A with Raymond Barfield
By Yonat Shimron — May 18, 2018
(RNS) — A conference on opioid addiction will bring together clinicians, clergy and educators to the tip of southern Appalachia to begin a yearlong conversation on ways churches can help heal and support those caught in the epidemic’s grip.
Mormon single mom on survival, hope and how a community carried her
By Jana Riess — July 24, 2017
When Tracy McKay was a single mom living in poverty, the Mormon community carried her through.
In Vancouver, Christian recovery programs respond to opioid crisis
By Alicia Ambrosio — May 19, 2017
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (RNS) In 2016, more than 900 people in British Columbia died of drug overdoses, a record and an 80 percent increase from 2015.
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