Media + Culture
Pliny the Elder’s Ancient But Refreshing Take on Opium
Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman and writer, lived during the 1st Century CE. ...
How DMT Generates “Novel Worlds” of Experience
A new study may give us the most detailed understanding yet of how psychedelic ...
Reform Funder Under Fire for Hiring Naloxone “Moral Hazard” Researcher
Arnold Ventures is one of the very few big philanthropy funds that support criminal ...
Psychedelic Exceptionalism, and the Need for Queer-Led Harm Reduction
[This article is an adapted excerpt from the anthology Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to ...
The Story of Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder
On June 30, 2022, Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, closed its doors for ...
An Act of Resistance: The True Meanings of Prison Tattoos
The true measure of how a prison treats its prisoners can be found in ...
Tobacco Fairs, Free NRT and Few Vapes: A Conversation in Cuba
Winning a prize for my laughable “dancing” skills at a bar in Havana was ...
Ending the X-Waiver Doesn’t End OUD-Meds Stigma in Health Care
Many health care organizations have praised, as they should, the repeal of the X-waiver ...
Evidence Is In on Vapes as Smoking Cessation. Now We Need Urgency.
In a comment published in Nature Medicine, four leading researchers marshal the evidence that ...
Tobacco Harm Reduction Reflections, as My Years of Reporting End
Many people who vape, or are otherwise involved in tobacco harm reduction, will remember ...
