San Diego County Lawmaker Pushes to End Syringe Exchange Ban

    A lawmaker in San Diego County, California is urging his colleagues to rethink a ...

    Colorado Teen Could Face Decades in Prison—For Cannabis

    Vaping-associated pulmonary illness reportedly contributed to 68 deaths through February 18, 2020. After an ...

    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 ...

    The Legacy of Northeast Philly’s “Redlining” Against Methadone Clinics

    Protesting residents of the mostly white, working-class neighborhoods of Holmesburg and Mayfair in Northeast ...

    COVID-19 and Tobacco Harm Reduction: What’s the Relationship?

    At publication time, over 113,000 people worldwide were known to be infected by the ...

    Are More Clubbers Taking Ketamine Without Knowing It?

    It’s safe to say Joseph Palamar goes to a lot of raves. Since 2016, ...

    Oregon Takes a Big Step Toward Decriminalizing All Drugs

    Oregon drug policy reformers are ahead of schedule in making drug decriminalization and revamped ...

    UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Once Again Postpones Key Cannabis Vote

    The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has decided to delay until December ...

    Study: Stopping Long-Term Opioid Prescriptions Associated With Veterans’ Deaths

    For years, pain patient activists have been sounding the alarm about the consequences of ...

    How Former Soviet Countries Are Suppressing Harm Reduction “Propaganda”

    Lawmakers in the former Soviet Union are seeking to impose harsher criminal penalties for ...