Prison Policy Initiative Proposes Ways to Stop Jailing of People Who Use Drugs
Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), a nonprofit research organization, poses a simple question for officials ...
Mass. Civil Commitment for Drug Issues Violates Rights, Say Attorneys
People in Massachusetts who are accused of harmful drug use often face court petitions ...
Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult
Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor ...
Maine Hit Hard by Overdose Crisis, Yet Suffers Biggest Federal Funding Shortfall
Funding for harm reduction interventions in Maine received a much-needed boost on February 6. ...
Sri Lanka President Uses Easter Attacks to Fuel Duterte-Inspired Drug War
For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on ...
New Study: Syringe Service Providers Could Have Prevented the Scott County HIV Outbreak
In the wake of the unprecedented outbreak of HIV among people who inject drugs ...
How the World’s Oldest Drug Checking Service Makes High-Risk Pills “Unsellable”
Don’t sit on your day job,” Daan van der Gouwe advised people who operate ...
Why Worldwide Drug Policy Progress Is Driven From the Ground Up
In many places across the world, progress toward harm reduction, decriminalization and legalization is ...
Sharing “Cookers” Heightens HIV Transmission Risk—But There’s An Easy Way To Fix That
Sharing injection drug preparation equipment, like “cookers,” increases people’s risks of transmitting HIV, according ...
“Liquid Handcuffs”—A Documentary to Free Methadone
There’s nothing greater than living,” says Ellis (above), who takes methadone. “We all want ...
