Media + Culture
How to Respond Sensibly to an Increase in Youth Vaping
For the past few years, the United States public health community has been amplifying ...
Why Aren’t We Celebrating the End of Teenage Smoking?
When I was a teen in a small Midwestern town in the 1970s, the ...
Stigmatizing Drug Use Is Killing Us, But Why Is It So Hard to Stop?
Despite significant strides in drug policy in recent decades, and changing attitudes about some ...
“New Meth” Is Nothing to Fear. It Isn’t New. It’s Just Meth.
If you’ve ever seen someone talk about “new meth” online, they were probably describing ...
Rebuttal for Paper That Links Reduced Prosecutions With Increased Homicides
Something about the concept of “progressive prosecutors” tends to torpedo rational debate. Chesa Boudin, ...
Thousands of Free Naloxone Doses Hitting Music Events This Summer
Music events feel like one of the last safe, unifying cultural gatherings in a ...
Inebriate Asylums to Narcotic Farms: Addiction Treatment’s Cruel Roots
Kenneth Anderson founded HAMS (Harm Reduction, Abstinence and Moderation Support) in 2007 as a ...
Global Forum on Nicotine Seeks to Accelerate Harm Reduction for All
At a hotel in central Warsaw, hundreds of public health experts, consumer advocates for ...
FDA Accused of Spreading Misinformation at E-Cigarette Summit
The annual E-Cigarette Summit in Washington, DC, is perhaps the most eclectic conference in ...
