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PrEP Education Campaigns Leave People Who Inject Drugs Behind

On July 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that found an "encouraging" increase in recent…

July 18, 2019

Memo to Josh Shapiro: Attorneys General Do Have the Right to Be Good

A fun exercise is to check your state’s constitution and search the term “attorney general.” If you happen to live…

July 18, 2019

A Sample Meal Plan for People Who Have Been Using Drugs

Editor’s note: This is the plan created by harm reduction worker Ria Tsinas (who has struggled with drugs in the…

July 18, 2019

Nutrition Is an Overlooked Aspect of Harm Reduction

The connection between food and drugs is stronger than most people might think. Many negative health effects associated with the…

July 18, 2019

Inside the Philippines Prison That Sparked Duterte’s Murderous Drug War

Twenty-three thousand dead. That’s the latest estimate—and maybe a low one—of people killed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines drug war.…

July 17, 2019

FDA Cites Vapes as a Smoking Cessation Tool in Lawsuit Argument

On July 11, a Maryland district court judge ruled in a lawsuit launched by anti-vaping organizations, who demanded that the…

July 16, 2019

A Conversation with Michael Johnson, Criminalized by Missouri’s HIV Law

Last week, Michael Johnson, a young black gay man, was released earlier than expected from Boonville Correctional Center in Missouri.…

July 16, 2019

How Oklahoma’s Top Prosecutors Gang Up Against Reform

Conservative district attorneys often seem like they are at one-on-one political war with their progressive challengers. But according to a…

July 16, 2019

New Coalition: Congress, It’s Time to End Federal Cannabis Prohibition

On July 10, the House of Representatives held a hearing on marijuana prohibition in the United States, examining the issue…

July 15, 2019

How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?

Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid…

July 15, 2019