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New York’s Proposed Rules for Growing Cannabis in Your Home

New York regulators have released a preview of proposed rules for home cultivation of marijuana by adults ahead of the…

January 23, 2024

More K-12 Schools Receiving Narcan, If Not the Best Education About It

As of January 6, all New York City public schools are required to carry naloxone. This was already a requirement…

January 23, 2024

UK Makes Cytisine Available as Prescription Smoking-Cessation Drug

For people in the United Kingdom who wish to quit smoking, a new oral pharmaceutical option, cytisine, became available on…

January 23, 2024

Harvard Health Stands by Misleading Article on Vaping and “Popcorn Lung”

Objections to an article published by Harvard Health saw a tweet taken down and a review conducted. But the article,…

January 19, 2024

Vermont on the Verge of Authorizing Safe Consumption Sites

The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill on January 11 to allow health providers to open and operate safe…

January 19, 2024

Mathematical Model Illuminates Potential of Safe Consumption Sites

New research aims to put numbers on how safe consumption sites (also known as overdose prevention sites, or OPS) can…

January 18, 2024

The Rise and Fall of Confrontational Alcohol Addiction “Treatment”

Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called "therapeutic communities" for people with addictions. It…

January 18, 2024

Sri Lanka’s Devastating Drug-War Crackdown on Poor Communities

Sri Lanka is several weeks into a devastating crackdown on the nation’s poor communities, supposedly to target people who sell…

January 18, 2024

Call It “Overcrowding,” Not “Understaffing,” and Fix It With Parole

In 1996, the Prison Litigation Reform Act was enacted in response to the rising number of lawsuits prisoners were filing…

January 17, 2024

Supreme Court Case Will Profoundly Impact Homelessness in 2024

Future experiences of homelessness in the United States will depend significantly on a Supreme Court case that is now due…

January 17, 2024