Carlyn Zwarenstein

    Carlyn is the author of On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance—a book about pain, opioids, harm reduction and the overdose crisis. She’s based in Toronto.

    The Right-Wing Backlash to Harm Reduction in Canada

    To harm reductionists in the United States, Canada can sound like a bastion of ...

    Environmental Ruin, Aided by Drug War: How Can Defenders Fight Back?

    Land use and control, combined with prohibition, is the fundamental motor driving environmental harm ...

    How the Global Drug War Threatens Environmental Defenders

    The global drug war provides a golden opportunity for land-grabs that trample on human ...

    How the Drug War Fosters Devastating Land-Grabs

    Few, if any of us, remain unaware of how industries can inflict catastrophic environmental ...

    The Ways We “Monsterize” Drug Use, Pain and People

    [This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters ...

    Compassion Clubs Advance Toward Authorization in Vancouver

    The headlines suggested that sanctioned heroin clubs were coming imminently to Vancouver, British Columbia. ...

    How a Canadian Decriminalization Model Can Improve on Portugal

    Isolation, drug-supply disruptions and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have sent North America’s ...

    Housing First and the Homelessness Crisis: What Went Wrong?

    “The homeless crisis interested me,” says Mary Duffy of the time before she herself ...

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