It Took a Pandemic to Improve Some People’s Access to Opioid Addiction Meds
“I’m great! I’m having so much fun!” Bill Kinkle tells me on the phone. ...
A Canadian Province Doesn’t Want Meth Users at Safe Consumption Sites
In Alberta, Canada, a committee for the provincial Ministry of Health expressed opposition to ...
PA Liquor Store Closures Put Heavy Drinkers at Risk: Here’s How to Taper
All Pennsylvania liquor stores were closed at 9 pm on March 17 as part ...
African HIV Responders’ Funding Hit Hardest by US Abortion “Gag Rule”
Organizations working to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa have been the most impacted ...
When Methadone Clinics Support Patients Who Use Marijuana
Methadone patients face many harsh restrictions. Among them, clinics frequently test for and punish cannabis ...
The Criminal Justice System Struggles to Adapt to the Pandemic
Measures in response to the coronavirus are rapidly progressing in the US, with workplaces, ...
How Harm Reduction Is Responding to the Pandemic
In the two weeks since the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in New York ...
San Francisco Cannabis Shops Can Stay Open Amid COVID-19 Lockdown
As people across the US see their lives disrupted by the pandemic, many can ...
In the UK, Are We Rationing Who We Care About Amid COVID-19?
Viruses are great levelers. So it is with COVID-19, which has no regard for ...
So Alcoholics Anonymous Is “Proven” to Work After All? Not So Fast
Alcoholics Anonymous and its 12 Steps, with their prescription of abstinence, have dominated America’s ...
