Any Assumption That More Opioid Prescribing Leads to More Child Removals Is Unjustified, Stats Show
State rates of child removals due to “parental substance abuse,” 2010-2015. Credit: Troy Quast, ...
The American Public Health Association Declares Police Violence a Public Health Issue
The American Public Health Association (APHA)—the nation’s leading public health organization, with over 25,000 ...
“Like Restricting Clean Needles”—Advocates Slam Age-Verification Plan for Under-Fire Juul
On November 13, JUUL Labs, the company behind America’s most popular vaping product, announced ...
Cops in Harm Reduction: An Insult? Or Incremental Positive Change?
Peter Sadler looked like a lost member of the Beastie Boys, but as soon ...
New Data Confirm That Construction Workers Are Massively Vulnerable to Overdose. What Can Be Done?
A new report in British Columbia shows that a disproportionate amount of people who ...
Drug-Law Violations Account for Over a Quarter of Women Incarcerated in the US
Over a quarter of incarcerated women are charged with or convicted of drug-law violations, ...
My Relationships With Drugs Vary Wildly: We Must Recognize Spectrums
For the last 14 years I have bounced around nearly every part of the ...
Meet America’s New Most Reform-Minded DA: A Q&A With Rachael Rollins
In the mid-1990s, Joseph P. Overton—a senior vice president at the Mackinac Center for ...
“I Was Just Ignorant”—World-Renowned Vaping Researcher on His Dramatic Conversion
Dr. Riccardo Polosa is professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Catania, Italy, and ...
Harsher Federal Penalties for Selling Fentanyl-Laced Drugs Have Taken Effect—Expect Unintended Consequences
New federal sentencing guidelines that took effect November 1 significantly increase the potential prison sentence ...
