Media + Culture
The Ways We “Monsterize” Drug Use, Pain and People
[This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters ...
A Court Rejected the Disease Theory of Opioid Addiction. Will We Listen?
The idea that opioid painkillers are inevitably addictive was put on trial and refuted. ...
Responding to the 2022 Global Drug Survey Will Help Other Drug Users
The world’s largest drug survey wants to know how you get high and why. ...
Let’s Examine the Astroworld Syringe-Wielding Assailant Rumor
On November 5, at the Astroworld festival in Houston, at least eight people were ...
Seattle Times Slightly Obsessed With Abolitionist City Attorney Candidate
Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, a Seattle candidate for city attorney and self-identified prison and police abolitionist, ...
The Annual “Halloween Candy or Edibles” Lie: Special COVID Edition
Because it is October, attorneys general across the country are participating in the annual ...
“Opioid Reckoning”: Oral Histories of the Complex Origins of Rehab
Language around addiction has changed so quickly in the past few years that Rose ...
Rx Drug Take Back Days Are Unhelpful at Best, Harmful at Worst
The Drug Enforcement Administration really, really wants you to give them your leftover prescription ...
Nan Goldin Isn’t Focused on the Sacklers Anymore
On March 10, 2018, photographer and activist Nan Goldin led dozens of protestors to ...
The Media Needs to Get Vaping Right on the First Try
In mid-September, two articles in prominent news outlets caused an uproar over how the media ...
