Media + Culture
The Real Harms of Abusive, Stigmatizing Language in Addiction Treatment
Ironically, the conversation that spurred a peer-support specialist at a buprenorphine program to yell ...
Tightrope: A Powerful But Problematic Deaths-of-Despair Narrative
Through the 1970s, Nicholas Kristof rode the Number 6 bus to school with Donna ...
Do Anti-Vaping Ads and Media Actually Encourage Youth Vaping?
In the wake of last year’s EVALI lung injury outbreak and a raft of ...
The Latest Dehumanizing, Anti-Harm Reduction Media Portrayal of Skid Row
On February 18, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid New York Post republished a new article ...
Dismantling NY Mag’s Disgraceful Hit-Job on Vaping
New York Magazine ran an article this month—in its “Intelligencer” vertical, of all places—with ...
Why Did LSD Help Me With My Philosophy Degree?
It’s summer in the 1990s. I’m looking down from a hill in Richmond Park, ...
Radical Theater Performance Subverts Rikers Violence
Christmas was a week away. The sky was baby blue, but you wouldn’t have ...
Why Overdose Deaths Have Fallen Here—Despite More Overdoses
Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a ...
The Artist Making Harm Reduction Gay Again
The makeshift harm reduction center quietly popped up in Chelsea, one of the historically ...
I Disagreed With Dr. Drew—And Unleashed His MAGA Twitter Horde
It was Christmas night. I was hosting my family here in Minnesota, feeling full ...
