THE OPIOID DIARIES
“It is 3 a.m. and I cannot sleep after reading this issue cover to cover,” wrote Dan Bower of Burton, Mich., referring to the March 5 issue, a special report devoted to James Nachtwey’s photo essay on the U.S. opioid epidemic. Ramona Davis of Sebastopol, Calif., said “at least a thousand copies” should be sent to elected officials. (In fact, the team behind the issue is sharing what it learned with elected officials and others at a March 6 event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) Particularly moved were those whose own lives have been affected. Patricia Alverson of Chattanooga, Tenn., who lost her grandson to “the intersection of two epidemics: opioids and gun violence,” appreciated the focus on “human pathos, not just numbers and…
