opioid crisis

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.

New book invites Christians to rethink homelessness

By Kathryn Post — August 9, 2022
(RNS) — ‘If we actually saw Jesus on the side of the road ... we probably wouldn’t just roll down our window and hand him a five.’

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.
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