Intersections + Injustice

Six Months Since My Daughters Were Taken, Here’s How the System Punishes Past Drug Use

The ground feels unsteady, like there's some dark ocean lurching beneath the wide flat floor tiles. I don't want to…

October 25, 2018

“Organizing Through Pain”—Harm Reduction Leaders Address Race and Structural Violence

A panel session titled “Organizing Through Pain and Policy: Multiracial Organizing in the Opioid Crisis” was just one of well…

October 23, 2018

US Support for Death Penalty Hits All-Time Low

The percentage of Americans who believe in that the death penalty is applied fairly has dipped below 50 percent. Gallup's…

October 23, 2018

Why Drug Dealers Are the Wrong People to Blame for the Overdose Crisis

Tyrique Wise was working at his self-owned painting and pressure washing business in Southern Shores, North Carolina, when the police…

October 23, 2018

“A Tidal Wave of PTSD”–How the War on Drugs Impacts Cops Ordered to Fight It

No one can claim that Nic Castle isn’t brave. “I was tracking one of the major drug dealing gangs in…

October 22, 2018

Cannabis Conviction? The First Ever National Expungement Week Begins

Expungement is going national. The process of having prior cannabis convictions wiped—and beginning to repair the many harms caused by…

October 19, 2018

The Harm Reduction Movement: Bigger Than Ever, But Facing Threats

If numbers gauge the health of a movement, this one is flourishing. Two thousand people crammed into a vast hotel…

October 19, 2018

The First Searchable Database of Every DA Is Built to Limit Prosecutorial Power

Last week Color of Change—a nonprofit racial justice organization—launched a tool that no other group has yet managed to create:…

October 16, 2018

Women Imprisoned: When Substance Use and Treatment Become Means of Control

Are you sure he’s not cheating on you?” I asked the woman next to me in rehab. She was silent.…

October 15, 2018

Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons by giving inmates suffering from opioid…

October 12, 2018