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COVID-19 and Tobacco Harm Reduction: What’s the Relationship?

At publication time, over 113,000 people worldwide were known to be infected by the novel coronavirus, and the number of…

March 10, 2020

Are More Clubbers Taking Ketamine Without Knowing It?

It’s safe to say Joseph Palamar goes to a lot of raves. Since 2016, he’s attended more than 125 parties…

March 9, 2020

Oregon Takes a Big Step Toward Decriminalizing All Drugs

Oregon drug policy reformers are ahead of schedule in making drug decriminalization and revamped treatment resources a reality. The organizers…

March 9, 2020

UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Once Again Postpones Key Cannabis Vote

The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has decided to delay until December a vote due to take place…

March 5, 2020

Study: Stopping Long-Term Opioid Prescriptions Associated With Veterans’ Deaths

For years, pain patient activists have been sounding the alarm about the consequences of abruptly halting people's access to opioid…

March 5, 2020

How Former Soviet Countries Are Suppressing Harm Reduction “Propaganda”

Lawmakers in the former Soviet Union are seeking to impose harsher criminal penalties for drug-related “propaganda,” especially online. Their efforts…

March 5, 2020

Worldwide, Executions for Drug-Law Violations Are Increasing Again

Ali Reza Madadpur was waiting outside a house in Iran in November 2011. He had come for his first day…

March 5, 2020

Tightrope: A Powerful But Problematic Deaths-of-Despair Narrative

Through the 1970s, Nicholas Kristof rode the Number 6 bus to school with Donna King, the Knapp’s five children, and…

March 4, 2020

Trump’s Ignorant Demand That Colombia Resume Aerial Spraying of Coca Crops

That white powder you snort off your key takes a long journey, starting in the rural mountains of Colombia and…

March 4, 2020

NY Governor’s Office Points to Stimulant Addiction Meds as Deaths Rise

In response to increasing numbers of cocaine- and methamphetamine-related deaths in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration has issued guidance…

March 3, 2020