Why Alberta’s OD Figures Don’t Make a Case Against Harm Reduction
Canadian opponents of harm reduction have been pointing to recent data from Alberta as ...
Georgia Won’t Fix Its Prisons Crisis. There’s Money in Letting It Get Worse.
When I began my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons over 30 ...
Over 200,000 Arrests for Marijuana Possession in 2023, Per FBI Data
Hundreds of thousands of people are still being arrested for marijuana possession in the ...
I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.
I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole ...
For NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Abuses, Discipline Is “Close to Nonexistent”
Over a decade after the New York City Police Department’s notoriously racist “stop-and-frisk” practice ...
EU Call to Ban Public Vaping Could Increase Smoking, Advocates Say
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is calling for member ...
CA Proposes “Treatment-Mandated Felony” Sentence for Drug Possession
In 2014, California voters passed a ballot initiative that punished most drug possession and ...
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
The Prison Mail Bans Aren’t About Fentanyl. They’re About Understaffing.
On September 19, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation that would require the Federal ...
National Cancer Institute Surveys Pain Patients’ Cannabis, Polysubstance Use
A federal government agency has published a wide-ranging series of scientific reports on marijuana ...
