Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard 
Any Assumption That More Opioid Prescribing Leads to More Child Removals Is Unjustified, Stats Show
State rates of child removals due to “parental substance abuse,” 2010-2015. Credit: Troy Quast, ...
“Like Restricting Clean Needles”—Advocates Slam Age-Verification Plan for Under-Fire Juul
On November 13, JUUL Labs, the company behind America’s most popular vaping product, announced ...
Drug-Law Violations Account for Over a Quarter of Women Incarcerated in the US
Over a quarter of incarcerated women are charged with or convicted of drug-law violations, ...
Harsher Federal Penalties for Selling Fentanyl-Laced Drugs Have Taken Effect—Expect Unintended Consequences
New federal sentencing guidelines that took effect November 1 significantly increase the potential prison sentence ...
Insys—Which Fought Cannabis Legalization—Now May Turn Itself Entirely Into a Cannabis Company
Insys—the pharmaceutical company investigated for its unethical fentanyl marketing tactics in the midst of ...
Moral Panic Around “Chemsex Crimewave” Predictably Lacks Coherent Analysis
Moral panic continues around chemsex, the term used (most often in Europe) to describe a ...
NYC District Attorneys Have Betrayed Their Promises on Marijuana, Court Watch Reveals
The Brooklyn and Manhattan district attorneys are failing to live up to their superficially ...
“Zombies” and Rotting Flesh: The Media Just Loves Halloween-y Depictions of People Who Use Drugs
Zombies are apparently not just for Halloween—they pervade media descriptions of people who use ...
Tainted Pharma Company That Fought Legalization Applies to Sell “Marihuana”
On October 30, the DEA announced that Pharma company Insys Therapeutics filed in August for approval ...
How the Young Lords Took Lincoln Hospital, Left a Health Activism Legacy
“They just took over the Nurses’ Residence at Lincoln Hospital,” says Walter Bosque, an ...
