Drugs + Money
Californian Cannabis Tax Revenues Are Used to Boost Police Budgets
How are tax revenues from legal marijuana being spent in California, the nation’s largest ...
Why an OASAS License for a Low-Threshold Bupe Provider Is So Significant
REACH—a harm reduction-oriented health center in Ithaca, New York that prescribes buprenorphine, among many ...
The Potential and Pitfalls of Providing Vapes to Incarcerated People
How much good can vaping do in a carceral setting? Smoking rates in prisons ...
Methadose: A Parable of Putting Profit Before Human Lives
Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work ...
FDA Greenlights Private Sector to Purge Websites Selling “Unapproved Opioids”
A new private-public partnership aims to purge the internet of “unapproved opioid” vendors in ...
US Forces Deployed to Colombia to Help Wage Futile War on Cocaine
Diplomatic officials announced May 27 that the US is sending an armed forces unit ...
Mexican Police Accountability Data Missing from US-Backed Drug War Reports
The US State Department is failing to monitor its Mexico drug war projects that ...
Growing Coca, Poppy May Be Latin Americans’ Economic Safety Net Amid Pandemic
The coronavirus crisis has interrupted transnational drug supply—but that might not last long, the ...
Why Some Appalachian Pharmacies Refuse to Dispense Buprenorphine
Some pharmacies in Appalachia, a region hit hard by the opioid-involved overdose crisis, are ...
Inside the Gangs Handing Out Pandemic Supplies in Rio’s Favelas
For many tourists, Rio de Janeiro is all carnival, caipirinhas and Copacabana. But there’s ...
