US States Ranked for Total Rates of “Correctional Control”—Taking Into Account Parole and Probation
The United States is the global leader in incarceration, with nearly 2.3 million people locked up. But ...
Public Health Experts Call for Retraction of Brookings Institution Opioid “Research Roundup”
[This article was updated December 12 to reflect a response from the author of ...
Troubling Report Shows Harm Reduction Provision Stalling Around the World
The harm reduction movement has made major gains nationally and around the world. But, ...
Fears About Kratom Use During Pregnancy Are Overblown
Like people in general, pregnant people use non-prescribed drugs for many reasons. Opioids and ...
Seven Ways (Just for a Start) the War on Drugs Violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Global leaders celebrate Human Rights Day each December 10—often touting their own violent anti-drug ...
Duterte Announces That His Murderous Drug War “Furthers Human Rights”
In the ultimate ironic observance of the 70th anniversary of the December 10, 1948 signing ...
By Ignoring Vaping, Mental Health Orgs Abandon Vulnerable Smokers
Recently, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) came out in ...
Student Occupation Pressures NYU to Divest From Under-Fire Prison Food Supplier Aramark
As a stakeholder in this institution, it is appalling that my tuition dollars contribute ...
How Harm Reduction Services Are Keeping Festivalgoers Safer
It’s around 4 am when I eat a brownie containing an unknown amount of ...
Pennsylvania Prosecutors Brought 186 Drug-Induced Homicide Charges in 2017
Pennsylvania prosecutors are having a love affair with the state’s drug-induced homicide law, despite ...
