1.0 link 81850 <![CDATA[The Wire V. the Baltimore Sun: Which Covers Addiction Better?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/the-wire-v-the-baltimore-_b_81850.html A newspaper exposes the damage from buprenorphine. But did it end up hurting addicts and misleading readers by misrepresenting the case for addiction medication and harm reduction?

As The Wire brings a fictional version of the Baltimore Sun to life, the real paper recently "exposed" abuse of the new addiction medication, buprenorphine. But as it turns out, HBO's dramatic series does a far better job of examining the complexities of addiction than what appeared to have the factual power of...

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