Kastalia Medrano 
“Like Two Cavalries”: After TN Prison Standoff, Fear of What Comes Next
On the evening of July 24, South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security private prison ...
Medicaid in Five States Will Cover MOUD for Prisoners Nearing Release
On July 2, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) more than doubled the ...
CA Mandates Extreme Heat Workplace Safety, Except in Forced Labor Camps
On June 20, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) approved the ...
Decades After It Set Meth Sentencing by Purity, USSC Surveys the Damage
Almost all controlled substances in the United States are criminalized by weight. There are ...
VT Legalizes Safe Consumption Sites, Reversing Course on Veto Override
[Update, June 17: This story has been edited to reflect the final outcome ...
White House Meth Plan Still Includes Harm Reduction, Just Not for Meth
Once the federal government designated methamphetamine an “emerging drug threat” in March 2022, the ...
Ohio Bans More Nitazenes, Claiming They Cause Deaths on Their Own
Ohio has temporarily banned nine nitazene analogs as Schedule I controlled substances, making sale ...
New National Drug Control Strategy: Almost More Harm Reduction Access
In 2022, the White House released a National Drug Control Strategy that it widely ...
VT Gov. Vetoes Safe Consumption Site Bill. It May Become Law Without Him.
Vermont Governor Phil Scott (R) has vetoed legislation that would authorize a safe consumption ...
Amid DEA War on Meth, Cocaine Is at Last a “Traditional Plant-Based Drug”
The 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA) is such a widely cited document partly ...
