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National Guard Drops $100K on Fentanyl Fear-Mongering Classes for Cops

The ongoing panic around fentanyl, a potent opioid that is driving the overdose crisis, is being stoked among law enforcement…

September 12, 2019

Inside the Toxic Sex Education Battle in Tucson, Arizona

On September 10, the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) Governing Board decided to delay a vote on a proposed sex-education…

September 12, 2019

A Visit to VOCAL, a Vital Hub of New York Harm Reduction

Four days a week, no matter the weather, people gather outside a door on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, near the…

September 12, 2019

Trump Announces Disastrous Plan to Ban Flavored Vapes Across the US

President Donald Trump announced on September 11 that he wants the Food and Drug Administration to plan to pull flavored…

September 11, 2019

How America’s War on Drugs and War on Terror Go Hand-in-Hand

The United States has not always been committed to upholding opium prohibition in Afghanistan. Instead, its approach for the past…

September 11, 2019

ACLU Sues Bureau of Prisons for Denying a Federal Prisoner Buprenorphine

In a key moment for the rights of incarcerated people with substance use disorders, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)…

September 11, 2019

Will the Departure of America’s Worst Prosecutor Even Improve Matters?

People sometimes ask who is the worst prosecutor in America, from a human rights standpoint. Most would answer that it…

September 11, 2019

The Empowering and Dangerous Work of Harm Reduction in Afghanistan

Idris Azizi speaks softly when he relates how, as a person living with HIV, he was told to sit in…

September 10, 2019

The Mystery Lung Disease Caused by “Vaping” Was a Textbook Drug Panic

The opportunity that tobacco harm reduction haters have been waiting for finally arrived. On September 4, Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D)…

September 10, 2019

Four Things an HIV Policy Survey Reveals About 2020 Candidates’ Harm Reduction Positions

Six Democratic presidential candidates—Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke,Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—have answered a recent survey about…

September 10, 2019