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GOP Lawmaker to Benefit Recipients: Quit Medical Marijuana and Cheetos

A GOP congressman is peddling a stigmatizing message to justify a new bill on adding work requirements for certain federal…

February 28, 2025

Telehealth Bupe Is Expanding. To Take It Further, Fund Community Clinics.

In January, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a permanent rule change to expand buprenorphine access for people diagnosed with opioid…

February 27, 2025

Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers Reaches Supreme Court

Do gun manufacturers in the United States bear responsibility for thousands of murders by drug trafficking organizations in Mexico? The…

February 27, 2025

Georgia Moves to Ban All Transgender Health Care in State Prisons

Georgia senators have proposed legislation that would prohibit the state prison system from providing medically necessary gender-affirming treatment to people…

February 27, 2025

CDC: Overdose Deaths Now Down 24 Percent, Back to Pre-Pandemic Crisis

An estimated 86,882 people in the United States died of overdose between October 2023 and September 2024, according to provisional…

February 26, 2025

Alberta Will Force People Who Use Drugs to Enter Treatment

The government of Alberta, Canada, will force people who use drugs into substance use disorder treatment against their will, under…

February 26, 2025

Trump’s Backing of Death Penalty for Drug Sales Has Wide Consequences

At a meeting with state governors, President Donald Trump repeated a favorite theme of his—saying that states should put people…

February 25, 2025

“It’s Very Real”—Harm Reduction Research Facing DOGE Funding Cuts

As Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) take a chainsaw to federal agencies and funding, critical research—including that related…

February 25, 2025

Profits and Violence in the Prison Commissary Resale Market

The weekly limit of coffee I can order from the prison commissary is enough for about two days, so for…

February 24, 2025

BC Government’s Crackdown on Safe Supply Spreads Fear

British Columbia’s provincial government has ended its take-home safe supply program for new participants, with an intention to transition existing…

February 21, 2025