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When a Prosecutor Throws His Money Around to Keep His County “Tough on Crime”

Back in 2009, the Oregon legislature passed a law to remove marijuana from Schedule 1, the most restricted category in…

May 16, 2019

Drug War Photo-Op Policing Is a Betrayal of Law Enforcement’s Principles

It’s one of the defining images of modern policing. High-ranking officers lined up at the podium, with the drugs from…

May 16, 2019

The Year Is 2020, and the US Has Banned Vapes. What Happens Now?

President Donald Trump finished his overture at this year’s Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta by asking attendees…

May 15, 2019

Architect of Philippines Drug War Elected to Senate on Death Penalty Platform

A slate of allies of far-right President Rodrigo Duterte were elected to the Philippines Senate in the country's midterm elections…

May 15, 2019

Number of Women Arrested for Drugs Increases at Four Times the Rate of Men

From 2013 to 2017, women in the United States experienced a rapid increase in the rate at which they were…

May 14, 2019

Bolsonaro Cuts Harm Reduction, Escalates Drug War

Largely unreported in English-language news media, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has pulled the plug on government support for harm reduction,…

May 14, 2019

How Technology Is Rapidly Advancing Overdose-Resistant Bathrooms

As the US harm reduction community grapples with the legal, cultural and political challenges to implementing the nation’s first legal…

May 14, 2019

Coercion Into Addiction Treatment Is Ubiquitous: Five Ways It Happens

The range and intensity of coercion in addiction treatment isn’t well recognized. Yet coercion through Alcoholics Anonymous is long-established in…

May 14, 2019

Pain Patients Like Me Are Rising Up Against Discrimination and Suffering

If it were up to me, it’s unlikely I would be sitting down to write about my life with chronic…

May 13, 2019

It’s Time for People With Privilege to Come Out About Their Drug Use

I had a counselor look me in the eye the other week and say, “No drug user can be a…

May 13, 2019