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On a brisk, sunny day in mid-October, I drove through the affluent suburbs of Craig, Colorado, to a cottage-style house, where I’d been invited to breakfast. Josh Flaharty, a dark-haired 29-year-old with a thick goatee, tattooed arms and a slight potbelly...

By Dr. Mercola Heroin addiction is becoming a serious problem in the U.S., and far from being an inner-city problem, heroin addicts abound in the suburbs of America. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),1 lethal heroin...

In a beige conference room in Morgantown, West Virginia, Katie Chiasson-Downs, a slight, blond woman with a dimpled smile, read out the good news first. “Sarah is getting married next month, so I expect her to be a little stressed,” she said to the room...

Weber County Sheriff’s Department (left); Courtesy of Andi Peterson (right); Photo Illustration by Skye Gould / Business Insider Andi Peterson, seen in a mugshot (left) and several years after treatment (right). Andi Peterson never thought twice about...

Andi Peterson never thought twice about taking Percocet. After all, the powerful painkiller had been prescribed by a doctor. "I didn't think what I was doing was that wrong. It felt more like a have-fun-once-in-a-while thing. It was not going to lead...