Media + Culture
I Want to Reclaim My Voice From “Light Up the Night”
My motivation for being a drug-user organizer has always been to build a different ...
Ten Underlying Reasons Behind Opposition to Vaping
[This article is excerpted from Stop Smoking Start Vaping by Dr. Colin Mendelsohn. Copyright ...
Popular Advocate Forced to Close Her Small-Town Vape Shop
For the past couple of years, Skip Murray has updated a Twitter thread every ...
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 ...
