The article, "What Is Driving the Drug Overdose Epidemic in the United States?,” is based on research Thombs, a Ph.D. student in BC’s Sociology Department, conducted with his co-authors Dennis Thombs ...

I helped write the bill that imposed mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine. It was a mistake that should not be ...

First, as The New York Times warned on the front page in 1971, there was a “G.I. heroin addiction epidemic” in Vietnam. The drug’s use was also on the rise in places like New York ...