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Abolitionist Scientists Challenge Crime Prediction Software Research

One thousand scientists have denounced new software designed to predict criminality based off of a single face photo. They're now…

June 24, 2020

New York Evictions Are Back, and So Are Demands to #CancelRent

In New York state, evictions through housing court resumed on June 22 after months of being shut down due to…

June 23, 2020

Survey: “Having Fun” Still the Biggest Reason for Drug Use During COVID Crisis

Coping with the stress and anxiety of quarantine, historic job losses and a potentially deadly virus tends to be the…

June 22, 2020

Four Modes of Chemsex: Study Participants Describe Their Experiences

The meaning of "chemsex" is a contested matter. In the late 2000s, London-based social worker David Stuart facilitated the introduction…

June 18, 2020

“A Million Experiments”⁠—Leading Abolitionists Outline Roadmap to #DefundPolice

Amid an unprecedented mainstream debate over disarming and disbanding police, leading abolitionists published a tool guide to conceptually clarify the…

June 17, 2020

Safe Supply Pioneer Presents Vaping as Central to Harm Reduction

  "I am an accidental voice in the vaping world," began Dr. Mark Tyndall, a professor at the University of…

June 17, 2020

New K2 Compound in Canadian Heroin Supply Amid Surging Fatal ODs

A little-known synthetic cannabinoid, a class of compounds colloquially referred to as "K2" or "spice," has been recently popping up…

June 16, 2020

Beyond Stigma: How Researchers May Trigger Drug Users

Harm reductionists have long called on journalists, politicians and treatment providers to adopt non-stigmatizing language when speaking about people who…

June 15, 2020

NYPD to Grow Its Homeless Outreach, Amid Social Service Agency Cuts

Amid growing calls by 2020 Uprising protestors to #DefundNYPD, the New York Police Department (NYPD) is slated to expand its…

June 11, 2020

The 2020 Uprising: Abolition Gets a Seat at the Table

The system of policing in the United States needs to radically change, thousands of protesters have demanded in the past…

June 8, 2020