Providing sterile syringes in prison is an efficient way to keep people who use drugs safer and healthier, just as…
Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including…
[Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series] One of the most commonly cited statistics in overdose prevention comes…
Proponents of the Controlled Substances Act like to characterize fentanyl analogs as more potent and thus more deadly than fentanyl—if you…
Vaping does not produce clinically important respiratory symptoms, indicates a new international study. Significantly, it's among the first large-scale studies…
A syringe service program in Fargo, North Dakota, has narrowly survived a vote after coming under attack. On November 25,…
“People talk about a war on smoking, a war on nicotine or a war on vapes,” Harry Shapiro told Filter.…
Over my 21 years of using opioids I’ve often joked to myself that I don’t have a drug problem, I…
Since the inception of British Columbia’s drug decriminalization policy, which took effect in January 2023, harm reduction advocates have debated…
On November 18, the newly organized group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy set up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the…