What Drugs, Sex Work and One Key Case Mean for the Baltimore DA Race

    In 2018, attorney Ivan Bates ran against incumbent Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and ...

    The Right Uses Wisconsin Parade Tragedy to Attack Bail Reform

    After an SUV ploughed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, ...

    How Key Early Ideas Helped Shape Today’s Harm Reduction Movement

    [This article is excerpted from UNDOING DRUGS: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and ...

    Why the ACLU Is Taking On Wyoming’s Pretrial “24/7 Sobriety” Program

    Criminologists and, increasingly, local court systems love the idea of “swift, certain and fair” ...

    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. ...

    Germany to Legalize Marijuana, Increase Harm Reduction Services

    Party leaders in Germany’s incoming government coalition have reached an agreement to legalize marijuana ...

    Philly’s Addiction-Treatment Smoking Ban Ends, Leaving Bitter Taste

    The horribly misguided smoking and vaping ban in Philadelphia’s city-funded drug treatment programs, including ...