CDC Identifies Specific Drugs Most Frequently Cited in Overdose Deaths
On March 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a published a National Vital ...
New Hampshire Senate Kills Latest Marijuana Legalization Bill
The New Hampshire Senate has defeated a House-passed bill to legalize marijuana—the latest blow ...
No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”
A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described ...
Impending Parks Ban Looms Over Phoenix Harm Reduction Efforts
A looming ban on harm reduction services in public parks in Phoenix has just ...
Tennessee Prison Guards Want to Wear Body Cams. Prisoners Want That, Too.
Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn ...
Wisconsin Urged to Make Smoking-Cessation Tools Less Accessible
Wisconsin lawmakers need to do more to reduce a smoking rate that causes almost ...
DEA Permanently Bans Five Benzos, the First to Be Placed in Schedule I
On March 2, the Drug Enforcement Administration published a final rule permanently scheduling five ...
The Kingpin Effect: Violence From “El Mencho” Killing Far From Over
Violence erupted across Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the February 22 killing of ...
Georgia “One Strike Act”: Even More Life Sentences, Even Less Parole
In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike ...
“Would You Want to Live Next to a Clinic?”—Methadone NIMBYism
The speeches at the press conference in Harlem were a distillation of stigmatizing ideas ...
