Doug is a writer, editor and journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Undark Magazine, New Scientist and Hakai, among others. He lives in Alberta, Canada.
For people who use drugs, accessing prescription pain medication when needed can be a severe challenge. A new paper digs…
It’s now been over a year since British Columbia decriminalized adult possession of small quantities of drugs. A three-year pilot…
New research aims to put numbers on how safe consumption sites (also known as overdose prevention sites, or OPS) can…
At face value, a recent study shows that fentanyl was quite common in samples of unregulated stimulant drugs taken from…
Across the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and…
As opioid settlement dollars start rolling into jurisdictions across the United States, debate has intensified around how they should be…
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the midst of the overdose crisis, many harm reduction workers are…
A bipartisan bill in Kentucky would decriminalize fentanyl test strips. In early March, House Bill 353, introduced by Rep. Kimberly…
There are 41 fire stations spread across Calgary, Alberta. To a group of University of Calgary medical students, they represent…
It’s well documented that banning drugs leads to violence. But a new paper, published in the International Journal of Drug…