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.
To harm reductionists in the United States, Canada can sound like a bastion of progressive, evidence-based drug policies. Naloxone is…
Land use and control, combined with prohibition, is the fundamental motor driving environmental harm relating to production and sales of…
The global drug war provides a golden opportunity for land-grabs that trample on human rights and sensitive ecosystems. Corporations, formally…
Few, if any of us, remain unaware of how industries can inflict catastrophic environmental damage—on renewable and nonrenewable resources from…
It’s legal for adult use in 19 states, two territories and DC, and for medical use in 37 states, four…
[This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance, which was published in…
The headlines suggested that sanctioned heroin clubs were coming imminently to Vancouver, British Columbia. The truth is a little different.…
When I walk into my local pharmacy to pick up a naloxone kit, I don’t need to present a prescription.…
Isolation, drug-supply disruptions and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have sent North America’s already-high overdose rates soaring. Here in…
"The homeless crisis interested me,” says Mary Duffy of the time before she herself became homeless in Texas. “I wouldn’t…