“Subs. Who needs subs?” a woman called out quietly near the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny avenues on a recent…
Breadman came to me recently with a harrowing story. Aged 43, he lives in South Philadelphia and acquired his nickname…
As the holidays approached, I found myself in one of the most financially precarious situations I had ever experienced. It…
America is beginning—far too late and far too slowly—to get some kind of a grip on deaths and harms involving…
Amid the overdose crisis, drug warrior district attorneys across the US have added a new tool to their prosecutorial arsenal:…
In my second year in junior high in Philadelphia, I sat with two dozen peers, waiting for the start of…
October 2 will live long in US harm reduction history. A federal judge gave an interim ruling that Safehouse—a nonprofit…
The “Walmart of Heroin” is how the New York Times described Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood—in a much-criticized October 2018 story that…
Nearly two years after Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said his office would not stand in the way of a safe…
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of a legal battle with the potential…