On International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, in an act of civil disobedience, a small group of San Francisco…
It was the weirdest thing. Representative Donald Norcross (D, NJ) agreed with me that his Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act…
Judy Gibson is a pistol—one of the fiercest, most unapologetic tobacco harm reduction advocates you’ll ever meet. I interviewed her…
Dr. Paul Newhouse has been studying nicotine for three decades, but it’s only in the last few years that he’s…
I was prepared to hate-watch the new Netflix limited docuseries, Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul, directed by…
Dr. Paul Newhouse has been researching nicotine for over 30 years. He’s been doing this since long before nicotine became…
For decades, the war-torn country of Afghanistan has been the world’s largest producer of illicit opiates (opium, heroin and morphine).…
One of the most intriguing emails I have ever received hit my inbox in 2021. This, in part, is how…
When I interviewed Kim Dabelstein Petersen in the back of an empty midtown-Manhattan coffee shop, he had just attended a…
The American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) successfully fought to prevent expansion of methadone prescribing to a wide range of…