7-OH Did Not Cause the LA Overdose Deaths (Neither Did Kratom)
On September 12, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that ...
Remembering Louise Vincent, a Fighter for Drug-User Rights
The dictionary definition of “force of nature” should consist of two words: Louise Vincent. ...
Corrections Departments Winning Imaginary Fight Against “K2 Exposure”
In 2021, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department published body-cam footage of a deputy ...
Texas Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to State Rejection of Local Marijuana Decrim
The Texas Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal of a case ...
County Jail Data Show Importance of All Three OUD Meds, Besides Vivitrol
A large-scale study backed by the National Institutes of Health found that access to ...
Stigma From Medical Providers Contributed to My Son’s Overdose
This year’s hit medical TV drama, The Pitt, is a worthy successor to those ...
“Murder on the High Seas”—Trump’s Drug-War Strike Crosses New Line
The history of the global drug war is rife with murder and mayhem caused ...
Feds Crack Down on TV Drug Ads, in Major Shakeup to Pharma Industry
The era of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical commercials may be coming to a close. On ...
Baltimore Overdose-Crisis Hearing Hosts Plan to Arrest More Drug Users
At a hearing billed as a discussion of “public health-centered solutions” to the overdose ...
Learning to Love My Track Marks
[This article contains images of injection wounds.] When you have been injecting drugs for ...
