Drugs + Money
NY Cannabis Dispensary Rules Block Corporations, Leave Funding Gap
On October 28, the New York Office of Cannabis Management released a set of ...
Rehab Profiteering and Abuse: The Lesson of National Medical Enterprises
It seems like every other day we see a news story about a profiteering ...
Extracting Juul Settlement Is About the Money, Not the Truth
Juul is back in the news, this time for tentatively agreeing to pay a ...
How 12-Step Programs Became Embedded in US Hospitals
When I first went through treatment for an alcohol problem back in the 1990s, ...
Ohio Harm Reductionists Sue for Transparency in Opioid Settlement Spending Decisions
The state of Ohio is getting over $800 million from a settlement with opioid ...
The Pfizer Naloxone Shortage Ends, Leaving Us With Just the Regular One
[Read Filter‘s August 1 story introducing Remedy Alliance’s naloxone distribution here.] In the ...
Dire Harm Reduction Funding Gap for Lower-Income Countries Is Growing
Last year, Harm Reduction International (HRI) released a report that found funding for harm ...
Tobacco Bans in Our Prisons Are Rich Pickings for Me—and the COs
The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. ...
DEA’s Rx Drug Take Back Day Branded Fun for All the Family
The worst thing I’ve seen suggested at one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s biannual ...
One Drug Dominates Our Prison’s Supply. We Don’t Know What It Is.
During the pandemic, the Michigan Department of Corrections suspended all Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “substance ...
