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“No More Photo Ops”—NYC Activists Demand Legislators Take Responsibility for OD Crisis

Last year, for the first time in 11 years, black people had the highest rates of drug overdose in New…

October 16, 2018

Bopping Toward the Apocalypse: Where Drugs, History and Culture Collide

Obsessions with heroin and writing have dominated large, if not necessarily concurrent, parts of my life. But one need not…

October 16, 2018

The Language of Addiction: New York Times Insists on Perpetuating Stigma

The debate over journalists’ language on drug use was reignited by a recent email from New York Times standards editor Phillip B.…

October 15, 2018

Infographic: Which States Have the Highest Rates of Opioid-Related Insurance Claims

The state-by-state concentration of health insurance claim lines associated with opioid “abuse” and dependence is visualized in the above infographic…

October 15, 2018

Women Imprisoned: When Substance Use and Treatment Become Means of Control

Are you sure he’s not cheating on you?” I asked the woman next to me in rehab. She was silent.…

October 15, 2018

Ohio Plans to Ban Kratom—And the DEA May Be Close Behind

The Ohio Board of Pharmacy (BOP) has proposed that the active compounds in kratom—a recreational herbal supplement—be classified as a Schedule…

October 12, 2018

Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons by giving inmates suffering from opioid…

October 12, 2018

The Tricky Path to Publishing a Harm Reduction-Oriented Addiction Memoir

Women drink and take drugs because it’s fun. We do it to be bulletproof. To be more intimate, or more…

October 12, 2018

These Two Landmark Reports Should Light a Fire Under Drug Policy Reformers

Two landmark reports about drugs and harm reduction have been released in the past few weeks: Regulation: The Responsible Control…

October 11, 2018

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