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Does “Community Policing” Reduce Harms or Enable More of the Same?

Oluwadurotimi Oyebola, 16, was enjoying a warm day after school in Brownsville, Brooklyn on September 21. He was playing basketball…

October 10, 2018

Trump’s Attack on Universal Health Care Grabs Headlines—But Here’s the Real “$660 Million Hurdle”

President Trump has just penned an op-ed for USA Today, in which he rants against Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" plan, claiming that "The…

October 10, 2018

Dignity on Death Row: One Man Among 40,000 Awaiting Execution

“They said it would stop, the pain, if I signed on the dotted line,” wrote Zulfiqar Ali earlier this year.…

October 10, 2018

Homelessness, Vaping and Fentanyl: Three More Examples of Bad Media Coverage of Drugs

Inaccurate and biased media coverage of drugs, drug use, and harm reduction was in full swing over this past weekend.…

October 9, 2018

Sound Familiar? Punjab Leader Campaigns Against “Drug Menace,” Blames Pakistan for Trafficking

On October 6 the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Punjab, Amarinder Singh, accused neighbor Pakistan of strategically trafficking heroin…

October 9, 2018

Deep Systemic Change: My 10 Steps to Transform Addiction Treatment

As panel after summit after commission after white paper is put forward claiming to solve the overdose crisis, you’d think…

October 8, 2018

A Cannabis Law Expert Explains Three Major Hurdles for the Industry

“That can’t be right, marijuana is legal here.” It's a common refrain from would-be cannabis entrepreneurs, initially filled with enthusiasm—only…

October 4, 2018

Faulty Study Questioning Effectiveness of Safer Consumption Spaces Now Retracted—But the Damage Was Done

The International Journal of Drug Policy announced last week that they retracted a recently published meta-analysis on the health impacts…

October 4, 2018

Infographic: The “Iron Law of Prohibition”

On September 24 the Global Commission on Drug Policy—a heavyweight group co-founded by Richard Branson and including former presidents and prime ministers…

October 3, 2018

As the WHO Gathers, Our Global Tobacco Control Framework Needs Radical Overhaul

Twenty-five years ago, when I started working on tobacco control at a government policy level, the politicians used to reject…

October 3, 2018