Morphine

A reduction roughly equivalent to a dose of morphine.

• By Tom Jacobs

Though a new generation of genetically engineered microbes is raising fears about home-brew heroin, a technology de-coupled from the whims of growing seasons could also mean cheaper, legal drugs.

• By Michael White

We were young misfits in 1980s San Francisco, taking care of our friend, who was dying, and waiting for our own diagnoses. We were doing, selling, stealing drugs, staying as high we could. Looking back, I cringe. Yet we did the best we could.

• By Joe Westmoreland

Genetically engineered yeast will soon be able to make morphine from sugar. Tech policy experts fear a generation of Walter Whites.

• By Kate Wheeling