Why California Has Largely Been Spared Fentanyl Deaths—So Far
America’s crisis of drug-overdose deaths has largely spared California. At 11.2 deaths per 100,000 ...
In Defense of Juul, After the Latest Media Hit-Piece
The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on ...
“People Will Die Because of his Veto”—California Governor Jerry Brown Rejects San Francisco Supervised Consumption Spaces
On September 30, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Assembly Bill 186, a bill that ...
Mass Bail Out of Hundreds of NYC Prisoners Begins
On October 1, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and a coalition of grassroots ...
Drug Laws and Stigma Are Major Factors in #WhyIDidntReport
On September 21, a week before Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate ...
Kavanaugh and the Paradox of Outgrowing Alcoholic Identity, But Not Moral Culpability
At this point, we don’t need to introduce Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee ...
“More Like Retail Than Healing”—Can the Opioid Crisis Bring Health Equity to Our Medical System?
Fifteen years ago, with an EMT colleague and an armed police officer, I arrived ...
Is This the Last Drug Czar? As Someone Who Worked in the ONDCP, I Hope So
When I began working as a research assistant at the White House Office of ...
Trump Got 129 Countries to Sign His Backwards Drug Plan
On September 24, President Trump welcomed the United Nations General Assembly to a “High-level ...
How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?
“We call on social justice movements to develop strategies and analysis that address both ...
