Recovery

Recovery high schools have been shown to have positive effects on students who struggle with addiction. So why aren't there more of them?

• By Britni de la Cretaz

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

• By Ted Scheinman
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A new animal-inspired algorithm allows robots to adapt to damage in seconds.

• By Kate Wheeling

A complicated blend of economics, culture, and infrastructure make it hard to find any right way to restore a city after disaster.

• By Wes Judd

Treatment for teens with drug problems can be stigmatizing and punitive. Advocates say that recovery high schools offer a kinder, less dogmatic, and more effective alternative.

• By Maia Szalavitz

Stories from the 25th anniversary celebration of the nation’s first drug court.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Profits are being used to boost management earnings and pay dividends to stockholders, not improve worker wages.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Why the next few years will look—unfortunately—a lot like the last few years.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

One of the biggest differences between this recovery and others that came before is the contraction of government spending and employment.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Homeless and struggling with sobriety, Lillian Imbert faced a choice: Go to useless counseling sessions at New York Service Network or be evicted from her “sober” home. Her story shows how drug treatment clinics and landlords traffic in indigent alcoholics and addicts, all at taxpayer expense.

• By Jake Bernstein

Evaluating Vivitrol, the newest anti-addiction drug—actually an injectable form of an old pill. It's definitely better than nothing. But is it $1,100 a month better?

• By Walter Armstrong