“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 ...
Drug Reporters Know This Is a War―So Why Don’t We Cover It Like One?
[This article contains graphic images of injecting drug use.] A picture may be worth ...
The War on Nicotine Pits Prejudice Against Public Health
There’s a war on nicotine. And just like the War on Drugs in general, ...
The Invisible Majority: People Whose Drug Use Is Not Problematic
For years, Mark* woke up each morning, made breakfast for his two young children, ...
Five Harmful Anti-Alcohol Myths and the Evidence Against Them
In Temperance America and beyond, it seems no amount of evidence will be accepted ...
With the Focus on Opioids, Don’t Forget About Meth and Cocaine
The “opioid crisis” has dominated drug conversations for at least the past decade, while ...
Virginia Court Decides Homeless “Habitual Drunkards” Don’t Deserve Due Process
Not even Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, once referred to as “Wall ...
