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How to Involve People Who Use Drugs in Your Organization

Advocates at the Drugs Research Network Scotland conference in Glasgow this week circulated a striking two-page pamphlet: "How to Involve People…

November 29, 2018

Shut-Down of Orange County Needle Exchange Program a Win for Backwards Thinking

One step forward, two back. The day after a federal judge issued a groundbreaking order for an incarcerated man to…

November 29, 2018

Nothing Like a Movie: It Matters That We Know the Reality of an Overdose Scene

We get a lot of ideas about drug overdoses from the movies. Raves gone wrong, party girls with bloody noses…

November 28, 2018

As Nicholas Kristof Recruits Students for His Global Poverty Tour, a New Book Exposes His “Racist and Imperialist Logic”

New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof has issued an invitation to university students to apply for his "2019 win-a-trip…

November 28, 2018

Federal Judge Issues Groundbreaking Order to a Jail to Allow Methadone Access

A federal court judge has stated that denying medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to an incarcerated person would "likely" be found unconstitutional.…

November 27, 2018

New Jersey’s Exciting Marijuana Legalization Package Misses Some Social Justice Opportunities

New Jersey could soon become the first state to legalize cannabis through a legislative vote—rather than a popular vote, as…

November 27, 2018

Here’s How Infuriatingly Hard It Still Is to Get Medical Marijuana in New York

The sciatica pain jolting down my right leg was so severe that it was hard for me to function. All…

November 27, 2018

Governor Cuomo’s Approval Is All That’s Stopping Supervised Consumption Spaces in New York

The fight for safer consumption spaces in New York looked promising in October, after Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed tentative openness to…

November 26, 2018

Insurance Company to Non-Rich Heart Transplant Patient: Try Crowdfunding!

Patients in the financially segregated US healthcare system are frequently forced to raise money from friends, family and strangers to…

November 26, 2018

Russia’s Harm Reductionists Are Once Again Under Attack

“It used to be that you'd be walking on your way to score, and if you'd see a policeman, you'd…

November 26, 2018