Inaccurate and biased media coverage of drugs, drug use, and harm reduction was in full swing over this past weekend.…
On October 6 the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Punjab, Amarinder Singh, accused neighbor Pakistan of strategically trafficking heroin…
As panel after summit after commission after white paper is put forward claiming to solve the overdose crisis, you’d think…
“That can’t be right, marijuana is legal here.” It's a common refrain from would-be cannabis entrepreneurs, initially filled with enthusiasm—only…
The International Journal of Drug Policy announced last week that they retracted a recently published meta-analysis on the health impacts…
On September 24 the Global Commission on Drug Policy—a heavyweight group co-founded by Richard Branson and including former presidents and prime ministers…
Twenty-five years ago, when I started working on tobacco control at a government policy level, the politicians used to reject…
On October 1, Buzzfeed News published a leaked letter from Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) acting director James…
America's crisis of drug-overdose deaths has largely spared California. At 11.2 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016, California's rate of…
The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on steroids—and this feeds directly into actions…