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Baltimore Overdose-Crisis Hearing Hosts Plan to Arrest More Drug Users

At a hearing billed as a discussion of "public health-centered solutions" to the overdose crisis, the Baltimore Police Department’s top…

September 11, 2025

Learning to Love My Track Marks

[This article contains images of injection wounds.] When you have been injecting drugs for a long time, it tends to…

September 10, 2025

Federally Funded Study Links Marijuana Use to Reduced Heavy Drinking

Marijuana use is linked to lower alcohol intake and diminished cravings in heavy drinkers, according to a new federally funded…

September 10, 2025

What New York’s Cigarette Litter Says About Tobacco Control

Welcome to New York City, the cigarette tax evasion capital of the East Coast. A new study of littered cigarette…

September 9, 2025

Inevitably, FCC Moves to Let Prisons Use Illegal Cell Phone Signal Jammers

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to formally consider allowing corrections departments to use cell phone signal jamming devices.…

September 9, 2025

Trump’s Deadly Drug War Is Also Waged Through Funding Cuts

On September 2, the United States military struck a small boat speeding through the Caribbean. The Trump administration claimed the…

September 8, 2025

DHS Doesn’t Collect Mandatory Data on Efficacy of Fentanyl Seizures

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) never created a mandatory data collection program to evaluate whether its fentanyl enforcement operations…

September 8, 2025

Massachusetts AG Certifies Ballot Measures to Recriminalize Adult-Use Marijuana Sales

The attorney general of Massachusetts has certified and prepared summaries for dozens of proposed 2026 ballot initiatives—including a pair that…

September 5, 2025

Many Prisoners Take the GED Test. It’s Hard to Get a Job in Here Without It.

In 2022, Tennessee amended its state constitution to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Before this,…

September 4, 2025

Contentious Study Gave Pregnant Women Low-Nicotine Cigarettes

Pregnant women who smoke participated in a recent study looking at very low-nicotine cigarettes (VLNC). The study adds to a…

September 4, 2025