Media + Culture
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explained Why Marijuana Should Be Legal on Instagram—But the Live Feed Also Had Wider Significance
New York Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, captivated thousands ...
“Zombies” and Rotting Flesh: The Media Just Loves Halloween-y Depictions of People Who Use Drugs
Zombies are apparently not just for Halloween—they pervade media descriptions of people who use ...
Misinformation About So-Called “Terrorist Drug” Dispelled in New Report
If you’re in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic ...
Why Everything About the Trump Administration’s New Opioid Video Campaign Is Wrong
A new campaign—from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the ...
Bopping Toward the Apocalypse: Where Drugs, History and Culture Collide
Obsessions with heroin and writing have dominated large, if not necessarily concurrent, parts of ...
The Language of Addiction: New York Times Insists on Perpetuating Stigma
The debate over journalists’ language on drug use was reignited by a recent email ...
The Tricky Path to Publishing a Harm Reduction-Oriented Addiction Memoir
Women drink and take drugs because it’s fun. We do it to be bulletproof. ...
Homelessness, Vaping and Fentanyl: Three More Examples of Bad Media Coverage of Drugs
Inaccurate and biased media coverage of drugs, drug use, and harm reduction was in ...
In Defense of Juul, After the Latest Media Hit-Piece
The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on ...
Drug Reporters Know This Is a War―So Why Don’t We Cover It Like One?
[This article contains graphic images of injecting drug use.] A picture may be worth ...
