A Nevada housing reporter traces how homelessness and unaffordable rents strain child welfare, driving referrals and delaying family reunification.
Addiction
A reporting team used stats, R coding, and new datasets to investigate why U.S. overdose deaths declined unevenly, showing how data skills and scientifia collaboration led to powerful new findings.
Cannabis sales have surged in Washington since legalization in 2012, but educators, police and health experts say questions remain about effects on young users.
Mississippi has received $400 million in opioid settlements but spent little on treatment or families. Advocates urge more spending on moms, kids and recovery as overdose deaths and foster care rates soar.
Advocates say boosting insurance pay would help expand programs for vulnerable pregnant people.
Are stricter felony drug possession penalties effective tools for propelling users into care? One reporter's deep dive raises serious doubts.
A Guardian investigation into the U.S. overdose slowdown found that national declines masked sharp local disparities. Here's how the reporting team got the story.
Washington’s effort to keep families together has reduced child removals, but it’s also raised fears that higher legal thresholds may leave some children unsafe.
An entire gambling ecosystem operates with virtually no federal guardrails, and a generation is growing up with casinos on their phones.
Overdoses have been declining nationally since August 2023, but Alaska is far behind in that progress