Media + Culture

    Blowing the Lid Off the Scandal of US Rehab

    Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make ...

    Inevitably, FCC Moves to Let Prisons Use Illegal Cell Phone Signal Jammers

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to formally consider allowing corrections departments to ...

    Just a Reminder That Drug Users Aren’t Zombies

    The White House is promoting a new fentanyl awareness ad campaign. “Make America Fentanyl ...

    A Doctor’s First Taste of the Methadone Clinic 

    When I first neared the nondescript two-story building, I wasn’t sure I was in ...

    “Mother of Methadone”—Trailblazing and Stigma in Addiction Medicine

    With Dr. Melody Glenn’s new book—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, A Forgotten History, ...

    With a Contraband Market in Flux, More Prisoners Turn Toward Gambling

    [Read Part 1 of this story here]   In May, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp ...

    Media, Researchers Fuel More Vape Misperceptions

    Media scaremongering about tobacco harm reduction options, often involving credulous amplifications or distortions of ...

    The Return of the Prison Poker Game

    The tobacco bans that Georgia Department of Corrections implemented in 2010 changed the way ...

    Despite FDA Authorization, the Damage of the Juul Frenzy Lingers

    Well, well, well. On July 17, after five long years trying to prove what ...

    Why Dr. Mark Tyndall Is Taking a Stand for Tobacco Harm Reduction

    The tobacco harm reduction movement has long needed doctors to unapologetically make the case ...