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Hundreds Prosecuted for Drug Use During Pregnancy in Year After Dobbs

A new report from a reproductive rights organization finds that pregnancy-related prosecutions are at an all-time high in the wake…

October 4, 2024

DEA Bids to Exclude Expert Witnesses From Psychedelics-Ban Hearing

The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking to exclude what advocates say is key testimony from an upcoming hearing on the…

October 4, 2024

DOJ Investigation Found Horrors in Georgia Prisons. It Missed a Lot, Too.

Four years after the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the whether the Georgia Department of…

October 3, 2024

License Fees a Sticking Point as Colorado Plans Legal Psilocybin Services

The clock is ticking for legal psilocybin therapy to begin in Colorado. In 2022, voters approved Proposition 122, a measure…

October 3, 2024

To Get Methadone in Jail, I Had to Hide It in My Prosthetic Leg

The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as methadone. I had a doctor who…

October 3, 2024

US Drug Enforcement’s Role in the Current Violence in Sinaloa, Mexico

A major outbreak of violence in Culiacán, Mexico, spotlights United States drug war tactics and puts hard questions to new…

October 2, 2024

Some Thoughts on Dying in Prison

Over the course of my nearly 30 years in Tennessee Department of Correction custody, I've seen many friends die painlessly.…

October 2, 2024

“Merci la Vape”—French Advocates Counter Relentless Anti-Vape Moves

Tobacco harm reduction has been under attack in France, despite the country’s high rates of smoking and smoking-related deaths. Embattled…

October 1, 2024

Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I was a clerk in the Central…

October 1, 2024

Harris Visits Border, Confirms Plan to Arrest Our Way Out of Overdose Crisis

In her first visit to the United States-Mexico border since 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris met with Customs and Border…

September 30, 2024