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Any Assumption That More Opioid Prescribing Leads to More Child Removals Is Unjustified, Stats Show

State rates of child removals due to "parental substance abuse," 2010-2015. Credit: Troy Quast, PhD, University of South Florida  …

November 15, 2018

The American Public Health Association Declares Police Violence a Public Health Issue

The American Public Health Association (APHA)—the nation's leading public health organization, with over 25,000 members—has declared police violence to be a…

November 15, 2018

“Like Restricting Clean Needles”—Advocates Slam Age-Verification Plan for Under-Fire Juul

On November 13, JUUL Labs, the company behind America's most popular vaping product, announced a stringent new online age-verification system.…

November 14, 2018

Cops in Harm Reduction: An Insult? Or Incremental Positive Change?

Peter Sadler looked like a lost member of the Beastie Boys, but as soon as he spoke it was obvious…

November 14, 2018

New Data Confirm That Construction Workers Are Massively Vulnerable to Overdose. What Can Be Done?

A new report in British Columbia shows that a disproportionate amount of people who died from illicit drug overdoses worked,…

November 13, 2018

Drug-Law Violations Account for Over a Quarter of Women Incarcerated in the US

Over a quarter of incarcerated women are charged with or convicted of drug-law violations, according to a new report on the…

November 13, 2018

My Relationships With Drugs Vary Wildly: We Must Recognize Spectrums

For the last 14 years I have bounced around nearly every part of the drug-use spectrum, though I’ve rarely stayed…

November 13, 2018

Meet America’s New Most Reform-Minded DA: A Q&A With Rachael Rollins

In the mid-1990s, Joseph P. Overton—a senior vice president at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy—observed that no matter how…

November 9, 2018

“I Was Just Ignorant”—World-Renowned Vaping Researcher on His Dramatic Conversion

Dr. Riccardo Polosa is professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Catania, Italy, and a world-renowned researcher into tobacco harm…

November 8, 2018

Harsher Federal Penalties for Selling Fentanyl-Laced Drugs Have Taken Effect—Expect Unintended Consequences

New federal sentencing guidelines that took effect November 1 significantly increase the potential prison sentence faced by someone who sells heroin…

November 8, 2018