Intersections + Injustice

India Persecutes Leading Legal Advocate for People Who Use Drugs

The Indian High Court would not have become the first in the world to strike down mandatory death penalties for…

July 25, 2019

Memo to Josh Shapiro: Attorneys General Do Have the Right to Be Good

A fun exercise is to check your state’s constitution and search the term “attorney general.” If you happen to live…

July 18, 2019

A Conversation with Michael Johnson, Criminalized by Missouri’s HIV Law

Last week, Michael Johnson, a young black gay man, was released earlier than expected from Boonville Correctional Center in Missouri.…

July 16, 2019

How Oklahoma’s Top Prosecutors Gang Up Against Reform

Conservative district attorneys often seem like they are at one-on-one political war with their progressive challengers. But according to a…

July 16, 2019

How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?

Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid…

July 15, 2019

After Michael Johnson’s Release, What Next for Missouri HIV Criminalization?

On July 9, Michael Johnson, a Black gay man from Missouri, made headlines when he was released early after entering…

July 11, 2019

How Can Harm Reduction Do Better for Transgender People?

In 2015 Tori Cooper decided to leave a successful nonprofit career to blaze a trail advocating for the rights of…

July 10, 2019

New North Carolina Drug-Induced Homicide Law Ramps Up Punishments

On July 8, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed into law a bill creating a new criminal offense category that…

July 9, 2019

Nurse Who Gave Her Meds to MAT-Deprived Patients Convicted

On November 18, 2018 at Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) at Plymouth, an incarcerated person who had been…

July 3, 2019

Why No Human Rights Section in 2019 UNODC World Drug Report?

Worldwide, more than half a million of people died from, or in relation to, illicit drug use in 2017, as…

June 27, 2019