Cannabis Legalization in Canada Is a Giant, Imperfect Leap Forward
On October 16, a legal national market for cannabis opens in Canada, as a ...
The First Searchable Database of Every DA Is Built to Limit Prosecutorial Power
Last week Color of Change—a nonprofit racial justice organization—launched a tool that no other ...
“No More Photo Ops”—NYC Activists Demand Legislators Take Responsibility for OD Crisis
Last year, for the first time in 11 years, black people had the highest ...
Bopping Toward the Apocalypse: Where Drugs, History and Culture Collide
Obsessions with heroin and writing have dominated large, if not necessarily concurrent, parts of ...
The Language of Addiction: New York Times Insists on Perpetuating Stigma
The debate over journalists’ language on drug use was reignited by a recent email ...
Infographic: Which States Have the Highest Rates of Opioid-Related Insurance Claims
The state-by-state concentration of health insurance claim lines associated with opioid “abuse” and dependence ...
Women Imprisoned: When Substance Use and Treatment Become Means of Control
Are you sure he’s not cheating on you?” I asked the woman next to ...
Ohio Plans to Ban Kratom—And the DEA May Be Close Behind
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy (BOP) has proposed that the active compounds in kratom—a recreational ...
Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons ...
The Tricky Path to Publishing a Harm Reduction-Oriented Addiction Memoir
Women drink and take drugs because it’s fun. We do it to be bulletproof. ...
