Opioids receive the full treatment

We’ll give The New Yorker credit for its reporting but, man, did it depress us.

This week, David Remnick’s mag dedicates 26 pages to the opioid crisis — 10 of which include photos of Montgomery, Ohio, an area so ravaged by the crisis that its morgues are said to be out of room because of opioid-related deaths.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s reporting takes us inside the rise of OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and its now billionaire founders, the Sackler family.

Keefe tells how Purdue employed “aggressive methods” to promote drug sales while ignoring and downplaying the risks — even as they became more apparent.

The piece ends hauntingly with the tale of “Jeff,” a recovering painkiller addict who also works as a tradesman. One house he frequently worked on belonged to a member of the Sackler family.

“I couldn’t tell you how many times I was on that property, sitting in a work truck, snorting a pill,” Jeff said.

We’d like to thank Time magazine for not depressing us, but they did put us to sleep.

This week’s cover tackles the so-called “Goddess Myth” affecting new and expect- ant mothers. In eight pages, the mag goes over what is already covered endlessly in blogs and chatrooms — that mothers feel harshly judged over decisions ranging from how to deliver and whether or not to breast-feed.

Is the “Goddess Myth” a thing? Certainly. But perhaps a more timely use of cover space would have been US Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is expected to take Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat.

Nash Jenkins and Philip Elliott write how Moore, backed by Stephen Bannon, represents a growing rift in the GOP.