Addiction

The portrait that has cohered at his Wilmington trial is of a precious commodity, a man whom others conspire lovingly to shield.

As an act of vulnerability, “Baby J” may not live up to expectations, but it’s further confirmation of Mulaney’s comedic talent.

An Indigenous Canadian’s unlikely journey to becoming an ultramarathoner, in Amar Chebib’s documentary short “The Runner.”

I put down the bottle and picked up everything else. 

Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, claims that he has revived a lost Mesoamerican ritual.

The second season of the hit HBO show is a thing of beauty—a stylized, heightened, art-directed fantasia of a dark suburbia where really bad things look really good.

Sydney Bowie Linden’s documentary short “The Space Between” explores trauma, sisterhood, and renewal.

On her new album, “Little Oblivions,” it is sometimes hard to tell whether Baker is singing about drug use or love.

The descendants of the Purdue Pharma founders debated over WhatsApp. Meanwhile, bottles of painkillers accumulated in my medicine cabinet.

The actor on addiction, beauty standards, famous parents, writing kids’ books, and her encounters with Bette Davis.

Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.

Notes on crack cocaine, commitment, Rick Ross, and my mother.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

Before it is auctioned off in June, the manuscript of the Big Book spent a morning at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.