FilterMag

Ohio Plans to Ban Kratom—And the DEA May Be Close Behind

The Ohio Board of Pharmacy (BOP) has proposed that the active compounds in kratom—a recreational herbal supplement—be classified as a Schedule…

October 12, 2018

Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons by giving inmates suffering from opioid…

October 12, 2018

The Tricky Path to Publishing a Harm Reduction-Oriented Addiction Memoir

Women drink and take drugs because it’s fun. We do it to be bulletproof. To be more intimate, or more…

October 12, 2018

These Two Landmark Reports Should Light a Fire Under Drug Policy Reformers

Two landmark reports about drugs and harm reduction have been released in the past few weeks: Regulation: The Responsible Control…

October 11, 2018

Does “Community Policing” Reduce Harms or Enable More of the Same?

Oluwadurotimi Oyebola, 16, was enjoying a warm day after school in Brownsville, Brooklyn on September 21. He was playing basketball…

October 10, 2018

Trump’s Attack on Universal Health Care Grabs Headlines—But Here’s the Real “$660 Million Hurdle”

President Trump has just penned an op-ed for USA Today, in which he rants against Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" plan, claiming that "The…

October 10, 2018

Dignity on Death Row: One Man Among 40,000 Awaiting Execution

“They said it would stop, the pain, if I signed on the dotted line,” wrote Zulfiqar Ali earlier this year.…

October 10, 2018

Homelessness, Vaping and Fentanyl: Three More Examples of Bad Media Coverage of Drugs

Inaccurate and biased media coverage of drugs, drug use, and harm reduction was in full swing over this past weekend.…

October 9, 2018

Sound Familiar? Punjab Leader Campaigns Against “Drug Menace,” Blames Pakistan for Trafficking

On October 6 the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Punjab, Amarinder Singh, accused neighbor Pakistan of strategically trafficking heroin…

October 9, 2018

Deep Systemic Change: My 10 Steps to Transform Addiction Treatment

As panel after summit after commission after white paper is put forward claiming to solve the overdose crisis, you’d think…

October 8, 2018