Buprenorphine, a powerful medication-assisted treatment for addiction, remains underutilized, but could help stem the opioid epidemic. In-depth reporting and data-driven analysis try to tell its story in this New York Times Magazine feature.
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In their reporting, Shepardson, Apuzzo, and Thomas Ksanderisky elaborate on the little-known FDA policy, enacted in 2001, that allowed doctors to opt out of being regulated by federal rules and prescribe buprenorphine as if it were any other medicine, due to the scarcity of addiction specialists at the time.
Journalists and co-authors Shepardson and Apuzzo interviewed physicians in areas most affected by the opioid epidemic and studied the life-altering effects of buprenorphine. The investigative reporting piece also explores the influence of drug manufacturers and how overzealous action from the federal government could inadvertently harm buprenorphine’s popularity.
Their reporting and series of policy articles, which received the Gerald Loeb Award in Investigative Journalism and a Pulitzer Prize, have prompted increased attention to the opioid epidemic in the U.S. The stories have reached over thirty million people and include this interactive piece that provides data for over six thousand counties across the country.
This article is adapted from the authors’ latest basis, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, which analyzes the history that brought humankind to the brink of the first fatal epidemic of its kind.
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