Intersections + Injustice

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

The Harm Reductionist Imprisoned by Ukraine Separatists for Carrying Bupe

For 10 months now, a Ukrainian harm reduction activist has been illegally detained by the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), an…

June 26, 2019

What to Make of a Leading Anti-Cannabis Advocate Retweeting a Far-Right Podcaster?

Given the racist past and present of cannabis prohibition in the United States⁠, an anti-legalization leader retweeting one of the…

June 26, 2019

Criminalizing E-Cigarettes Perpetuates the Spiral of Poverty

Forty-three million Americans live in poverty, and the numbers are not diminishing. Certainly poverty is complicated, and there are economic,…

June 25, 2019

Since 1999, Indigenous Women Have Faced Highest US Increase in Suicides

On June 20, the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention published an analysis of 2017 data showing that…

June 24, 2019

Which Presidential Candidate Would Give David Barren His Freedom?

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, published in 2010, probably did more than any other document to make mass incarceration…

June 24, 2019

Massive Philly Cocaine Bust Is Yet Another Action With Collateral Damage

Customs officials in Philadelphia made an unexpected discovery on June 18 during a routine inspection of a cargo ship arriving…

June 20, 2019

Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead

Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May 26, yelling that people were shooting…

June 18, 2019

NYC Jail Deprived Trans Women of MAT for Years

Between 2015 and 2018, transgender women incarcerated in New York City’s first-of-its-kind Transgender Housing Unit (THU) were deprived of access…

June 13, 2019

Why the Smoking Ban in Public Housing Makes Residents’ Lives Worse

The first thing that greets you when you walk in is the stench of Pampers and rotten food, rodents and…

June 13, 2019