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Congress Poised to Restore Drug War Victims’ Federal Student Aid Eligibility

Lawmakers have greenlit a massive COVID-19 relief bill containing a provision that would end a two-decade-long practice of blocking on…

December 24, 2020

CDC Recommends Drug-Checking Services Amid Historic Overdose Deaths

As the already-staggering death toll of the overdose crisis reaches historic heights, the United States' premier public health agency called…

December 24, 2020

Two Roadmaps Show How New York Can Decriminalize Harm Reduction in 2021

Just a month following historic drug policy wins at the ballot box in November, leading public health and criminal justice…

December 22, 2020

Mexico Lawmakers Reclaim Sovereignty From DEA

On December 15, Mexico lawmakers passed a law reining in the asymmetrical, imperialist influence of the United States' Drug Enforcement…

December 17, 2020

Indian Health Service’s OD-Vulnerable Patients Aren’t Getting Naloxone

The federal health agency serving federally recognized tribal members achieved its goal of reducing opioid prescriptions. But the majority of…

December 16, 2020

States Squander Opportunity of Billions of Dollars in Federal Treatment Grants

The overdose crisis is claiming a historic number of lives almost every year in the US, while addiction medications remain…

December 15, 2020

Prisons in Four States Likely to Vaccinate Officers, But Not Prisoners

On December 10, a promising COVID-19 vaccine is in the final stage of review before it's green-lit by the Food…

December 10, 2020

California’s Struggle for Safe Consumption Spaces Moves Forward

In California, the grassroots-led struggle for safe consumption spaces has taken a big step forward. On December 7, state legislators…

December 9, 2020

“Wasp Dope”—Under Prohibition, Insecticide Becomes Meth Replacement

In Appalachian Kentucky, drug users' difficulty accessing unregulated markets may be driving the uptake of a novel psychoactive substance in…

December 3, 2020

Watch: How Unhoused, HIV+ Queer People Resisted NYC Gentrification in the ’90s

As New York City Mayor Rudolph Guliani's gentrifying assault on the gay West Village got underway in the 1990s, a…

December 1, 2020