Santa Monica Lawmakers Bid to Stop Syringe Distribution in Parks
Lawmakers in Santa Monica, California are trying to stop sterile syringe distribution in public ...
Extracting Juul Settlement Is About the Money, Not the Truth
Juul is back in the news, this time for tentatively agreeing to pay a ...
Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout Reflects Deprioritization of Sex Workers
The monkeypox epidemic isn’t going anywhere, especially for street-based sex workers. NPR reports that ...
New Jersey Bans Employment Discrimination Over Cannabis Testing Alone
New Jersey marijuana regulators have approved new guidance for employers that makes clear they ...
Illinois Social Equity Program Near “Collapse,” Say Cannabis Advocates
A group of cannabis advocates led by Chicago NORML demonstrated outside the offices of ...
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 ...
San Francisco Decriminalizes Plant-Based Psychedelics
On September 6, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to decriminalize a ...
New Paper Calls for “Middle-Ground” Approach to Vaping Regulation
Four highly regarded tobacco control scholars are calling for a policy agenda on e-cigarettes ...
How 12-Step Programs Became Embedded in US Hospitals
When I first went through treatment for an alcohol problem back in the 1990s, ...
