Claire Zagorski

    Claire is a paramedic, a harm reductionist and a graduate research assistant and PhD student in translational science at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MS student in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She studies drug-checking implementation and the composition of the illicit drug supply.

    “New Meth” Is Nothing to Fear. It Isn’t New. It’s Just Meth.

    If you’ve ever seen someone talk about “new meth” online, they were probably describing ...

    An Opioid Vaccine Is Not the Answer

    In 1974, scientists at the University of Chicago immunized a rhesus monkey against morphine. ...

    Let’s Examine the Astroworld Syringe-Wielding Assailant Rumor

    On November 5, at the Astroworld festival in Houston, at least eight people were ...

    Health Care Workers Need to Be Watching the Splintering Drug Supply

    In the summer of 2016, the synthetic cannabinoid “K2” burst into the drug landscape ...

    A Guide to Fentanyl Touch Overdoses, Which Do Not Exist

    Once as a paramedic student, I accidentally sprayed fentanyl in my face. It was ...

    The Pernicious Myth of Fentanyl-Laced Cannabis

    A recent Washington Post piece on the ever-worsening increase in drug poisoning deaths has ...

    The Naloxone Arms Race Is Headed Nowhere Good

    In elementary school, my best friend Celina wanted to be a doctor when she ...