Journalism Grants
Funding For:
A Turning Point in the Addiction Crisis
Prescription Drugs / Substance Use
Recipient:
STAT
Grant Period:
Jan 01, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
AMOUNT:
$25,000.00
Summary of the Project:
Through a series of multimedia articles, this project will discuss the future of the addiction crisis and grapple with the looming — and enormous — challenges that public health officials, providers and patients are facing as the epidemic enters a new stage.
About the Grantee:
With an award-winning newsroom, STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine and scientific discovery. STAT produces daily news, investigative articles and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features.
Related Grantee Work
March 11, 2022
With overdoses at record highs, a veterinary tranquilizer spreading through the U.S. drug supply poses new threats
With overdoses at record highs, a veterinary tranquilizer spreading through the U.S. drug supply is posing new threats.
Learn MoreAuthor: Andrew Joseph
April 12, 2022
Driven by fentanyl, rates of fatal teen overdoses doubled in 2020
What teens may think is an opioid painkiller or Xanax diverted from the legal supply is now more likely to be a counterfeit tablet containing fentanyl or similar synthetic opioids.
Learn MoreAuthor: Andrew Joseph
June 22, 2022
To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA
“This kind of discrimination is overt,” Gregory Dorchak, an assistant U.S. attorney in Massachusetts who has led many of these investigations, said on a recent webinar.
Learn MoreAuthor: Andrew Joseph
July 25, 2022
Two deadly days in St. Louis: An overdose cluster kills 8 Black people — and shows the new shape of the addiction crisis
"Everyone should be running around with Narcan in their cars. There should be much more urgency.”
Learn MoreAuthor: Andrew Joseph
December 22, 2022
Under new rules, methadone clinics can offer more take-home doses. Will they?
Learn MoreAuthor: Andrew Joseph