Category: Drug deaths

On the Front Lines of the Tearing of Our Social Fabric

Commentary PITTSBURGH—When the Hampton Battery was dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Virginia, the granite monument was a point of pride for residents of this neighborhood. They would stroll along the trails of the lush park filled with trees located across the…


Curse of Fentanyl Coursing Through Small-Town America

“An endless parade of death” is how a drug addict, trying to beat his crack dependence, describes what he has witnessed over the past 18 months. Steven Sheldon, 42, of Port Huron, Michigan, says he knows of 40 people who have died after overdosing on drugs in that time. They are just a few of…