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UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Opioid Strategy Ignores What’s Most Proven to Work

Earlier this year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched an initiative to tackle what they dubbed…

December 17, 2018

Yale Gets an F for Student Mental Health (Harvard Got a D Minus)

Ivy League colleges are failing students who struggle with mental health, according to a new report published by the Ruderman…

December 17, 2018

We Need to Reduce the Harms of Draconian Tobacco Policies

Harm reduction shouldn’t just seek to reduce the harm caused by drugs, but also the harm caused by drug policies,” tweeted…

December 17, 2018

For Youth in My City, Marijuana Is the Go-To Treatment for Trauma

For children like me who grew up in Richmond, California, our lived experiences are very different than our peers who…

December 13, 2018

New Report Ranks Every State by Overall Health, Including Drug-Related Deaths

United Health's 2018 Annual Report of America's Health Rankings, the "longest-running annual assessment of the nation’s health on a state-by-state…

December 13, 2018

What I Found When I Applied Hundreds of Fentanyl Tests to Philly’s Street Drugs

Back in mid-2017 I embarked on a journalistic endeavor that, to my knowledge, has not been replicated. Through a contact…

December 13, 2018

This Proposed Michigan Law Would Treat Parents Who Use Drugs Like Sex Offenders

Sex offender registries and notification laws have proliferated in the name of protecting women and children, despite the fact that…

December 12, 2018

Ugly Disparities Among My Patients Demand Marijuana Racial Justice

As a doctor in a harm reduction clinic, the racist applications of our marijuana laws are regularly apparent to me.…

December 12, 2018

US States Ranked for Total Rates of “Correctional Control”—Taking Into Account Parole and Probation

The United States is the global leader in incarceration, with nearly 2.3 million people locked up. But the true extent of people held…

December 11, 2018

Public Health Experts Call for Retraction of Brookings Institution Opioid “Research Roundup”

[This article was updated December 12 to reflect a response from the author of the paper.]   An article published…

December 11, 2018