Intersections + Injustice
Your Methadone History Could Soon Be Shared Without Your Consent
The federal government wants to weaken confidentiality rules for patients with addictions. This means ...
New York Decriminalizes Cannabis, But Fails to Address Injustice
After stalling cannabis legalization in spring 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into ...
Algorithm Using Racist Drug War Data to Determine Missourians’ Freedom
An algorithm based on data from decades of drug war policing that disproportionately targets ...
India Persecutes Leading Legal Advocate for People Who Use Drugs
The Indian High Court would not have become the first in the world to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Can Harm Reduction Do Better for Transgender People?
In 2015 Tori Cooper decided to leave a successful nonprofit career to blaze a ...
