Hawaiʻi launched an anti-opioid initiative in 2017 when the federal government started making grants to the states. But no such initiative has ever addressed methamphetamine.

Parents complain too many of Hawaiʻi’s public playgrounds are lacking in shade, whimsy and equipment for kids of all ages.

Over four decades, the losses piled up — prison, homelessness, illness, children taken by the state — and eventually, death. But the survivors would find sobriety.

The number of physicians in Hawaiʻi rose last year, but so did demand.

Methamphetamine was largely unknown in Hawaiʻi in the mid-1980s, when “ice” took the islands by storm, setting off a national panic. Four decades later, the state is dealing with the lethal consequences.

Medication abortion has nearly tripled compared to procedural abortion over the past decade. The Trump administration is pushing to restrict access. 

Native Hawaiians will have to comply with the new work requirements in President Donald Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act, despite facing significant obstacles to employment and healthcare.

A Civil Beat series starting today examines the people caught up in Hawaiʻi’s most severe drug problem, how it started and what’s being done about it.

Hawaiʻi was ground zero for smoking methamphetamine in the U.S. Today, it’s the only place where meth is far deadlier than opioids — yet the state has been slow to act.

After nearly a year of research and reporting, Civil Beat will launch the first in an ongoing series on Tuesday.