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Harm Reductionist on Hunger Strike Against Alleged Civil Commitment Rights Violations

A prominent harm reductionist is allegedly facing numerous rights violations by a Massachussetts civil commitment program housed within a jail,…

January 28, 2020

The Formidable Challenge of Understanding Pain

Whether you consider opioids to be the gold standard for treating pain or a last resort, they do the job…

January 28, 2020

Could a Naloxone Implant Have a Major Impact on the Overdose Crisis?

Researchers in Illinois are developing a novel device to rapidly and automatically administer the opioid overdose antidote naloxone. Smaller than…

January 28, 2020

International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release

The World Health Organization (WHO) published an astonishingly bad Q&A on electronic cigarettes on January 20, full of lies of…

January 27, 2020

Forced to Quit Methadone Because of His Adderall Prescription

Breadman came to me recently with a harrowing story. Aged 43, he lives in South Philadelphia and acquired his nickname…

January 27, 2020

Meet the Type of Law Enforcement Officer That William Barr Really Likes

President Trump threw US Attorney General William Barr a big bone in the form of a January 22 executive order…

January 27, 2020

US Finally Condemns and Sanctions Philippines Drug Warriors

Philippines officials involved in the country's bloody drug war and a subsequent crackdown on opposition are finally facing official condemnation…

January 24, 2020

West Virginia Senator Calls Syringe Exchanges “Failed Experiment,” Seeks to Ban Them

In West Virginia, which has the highest rate of opioid-involved overdose deaths in the US, injecting drugs with shared needles…

January 23, 2020

Trump’s New Criminal Justice Commission Threatens Reform Wins

Some of the wins of the criminal justice reform movement will be scrutinized in 2020—and likely threatened—by a new presidential…

January 23, 2020

The Futile Cruelty of the US-Led Drug War in Afghanistan⁠—What Now?

A report published last month by the Washington Post—The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history of the war⁠—confirmed what many of…

January 23, 2020