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Overdose Awareness Day: Drug Users Are Aware—What About Governments?

Every year we come together to remember the lives that have been lost due to overdose. International Overdose Awareness Day…

August 31, 2020

California Ramps Up the War on Vaping With Flavor Ban

They never stop. Tobacco control organizations in California convinced the California Assembly to pass SB 793 on August 24, after…

August 27, 2020

Pennsylvania Now Lets You Get Naloxone by Mail

Pennsylvania's health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, has issued a new standing order to allow residents to receive naloxone (Narcan), the…

August 27, 2020

The Battle Over CBD Use Among US Military Personnel

A surprising substance has been stirring quiet controversy within the United States military community this year. The use of cannabidiol…

August 27, 2020

21 to Drink? The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status

America’s minimum drinking age law, set nationally at 21 since 1984, appears to be written in stone. But in 2008,…

August 26, 2020

Police Murders of Black People: Has the World Really Woken Up?

This week, I watched 29-year-old Jacob Blake get shot by a police officer at least seven times in the back,…

August 26, 2020

Four Easy Ways for a New Top Prosecutor to Make Meaningful Change

Activists like the Dream Defenders did not expect Harold Pryor to win the Broward County (Fort Lauderdale), Florida State Attorney…

August 25, 2020

Cages Don’t Always Have Bars: How “Reforms” Swelled the Carceral State

Place Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law together on a street corner in an impoverished neighborhood and they’ll see examples of…

August 25, 2020

Despite Fentanyl’s Ubiquity, Test Strips Can Still Empower Drug Users

As the presence of illicit fentanyl has reached near-ubiquity in many North American heroin supplies, some harm reductionists have questioned…

August 25, 2020

Congress Must Pass COVID-19 Legislation to Depopulate Jails and Prisons

In May, the US House of Representatives passed CARES 2—the HEROES Act—another legislative package responding to COVID-19. The measure contained…

August 24, 2020