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Saving Lives or “Promoting” Use? Judges to Decide Safehouse’s Purpose—And Future

The future of what could be the United States' first legal safe consumption site (SCS) currently hinges, in large part,…

November 18, 2020

How the US Facilitates Philippines’ Mass Drug Prosecutions

The United States is implicated in the Philippines' violent drug war, revamped by in 2016 by President Rodrigo Duterte and…

November 10, 2020

Could Philly’s New 911 Mental Health Response Program Have Saved Walter Wallace’s Life?

A little over two weeks after the City of Philadelphia announced progress on a new program embedding a behavioral health…

October 28, 2020

Study: Vaping Looks Like a Gateway Out of—Not Into—Smoking

In the United States, federal agencies and private organizations have pushed the narrative that the use of e-cigarettes threatens to…

October 21, 2020

Elizabeth Warren Advocates to Formalize Barriers for Pain Patients

Five lawmakers, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have renewed their demands for the DEA to double down on its policy of…

October 13, 2020

Is the UN Complicit in Philippines’ Lethal Drug War?

At the start of the summer, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) announced it had found thousands, and potentially…

October 8, 2020

California Renews Non-Rx Pharmacy Syringe Access—But How Accessible Are They?

Californians will continue to be permitted to purchase sterile syringes and needles at community pharmacies without a prescription, thanks to…

October 1, 2020

Heart Infection Projected to Kill One in Five People Who Inject Opioids by 2030

In 10 years, one in five people who inject opioids is predicted to die from a preventable heart infection, according…

September 30, 2020

Unhoused Philadelphians’ Direct Action Wins 50 City-Squandered Homes

On September 25, Philadelphia housing activists declared victory in their months-long campaign to achieve community control of city-owned vacant properties…

September 29, 2020

Coalition: Investigate NYPD’s “Inherently Unreliable” Gang Database

A coalition of New York City advocates and scholars is calling on the city's police watchdog to audit the notorious…

September 24, 2020