Media + Culture
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 ...
Why We Should Abandon the Term “Black Market”
As someone who identifies as Black and as an advocate for the end of ...
Johns Hopkins Call for Nicotine “Common Language” Falls Flat
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has just published a video, featuring ...
The Christmas Traditions I’ve Created Over a Decade in Prison
Many people I’ve spent Christmas with in prison have described this time of year ...
A Year After I Quit Drugs, the Stigma Still Haunts Me
From the moment I began openly acknowledging my opioid use—often via self-deprecating jokes, at ...
The History of the “Allergy” Myth of Alcohol Addiction
In 2022, it is still not uncommon to hear people claim that an addiction ...
A Peruvian Shaman Talks Ayahuasca, Healing and Tourism
Isasina is a member of the Shipibo-Conibo, an Indigenous nation centered in Peru’s Ucayali ...
A Full Moon in the Amazon: My Ayahuasca Experience
In April 2021, I visited Pucallpa in the Amazon region of Peru. The city ...
