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Which Presidential Candidate Would Give David Barren His Freedom?

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, published in 2010, probably did more than any other document to make mass incarceration…

June 24, 2019

Massive Philly Cocaine Bust Is Yet Another Action With Collateral Damage

Customs officials in Philadelphia made an unexpected discovery on June 18 during a routine inspection of a cargo ship arriving…

June 20, 2019

What Can We Learn From the Nation’s First 24/7 Methadone Clinic?

In October 2017, Community Medical Services (CMS), an Arizona-based addiction treatment provider, opened America’s first medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic that…

June 20, 2019

Could Ending Asset Forfeiture Be a First Step Towards Reparations?

Coinciding with Juneteenth, a day honoring the emancipation of enslaved peoples, Congress held the first hearing on reparations for Black…

June 19, 2019

NYC Syringe Programs Successfully Serving the Most Vulnerable New Yorkers

New York City's syringe service programs (SSPs) are successfully getting harm reduction resources into the hands of the most vulnerable…

June 19, 2019

Elton John and Bob Weir’s Recovery Routes Are Closer Than They Seem

Two superluminary rock stars, Elton John and the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, have in recent weeks presented addiction-recovery paths that…

June 19, 2019

Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead

Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May 26, yelling that people were shooting…

June 18, 2019

Global Forum on Nicotine Asserts Urgency of Tobacco Harm Reduction

Where else,” wondered tobacco harm reduction advocate David Sweanor, “do we permit a really deadly product, but try to restrict…

June 17, 2019

NYC Jail Deprived Trans Women of MAT for Years

Between 2015 and 2018, transgender women incarcerated in New York City’s first-of-its-kind Transgender Housing Unit (THU) were deprived of access…

June 13, 2019

Why the Smoking Ban in Public Housing Makes Residents’ Lives Worse

The first thing that greets you when you walk in is the stench of Pampers and rotten food, rodents and…

June 13, 2019