Use + Harm Reduction
“Junkie” Caricatures Make Us All More Vulnerable to Addiction
I shot heroin for the first time because I wanted to write poetry about ...
“Never Give Up”—State Commission Urges Mass. to Move for Supervised Consumption Sites
The Massachusetts Commission on Harm Reduction issued a report on March 1 recommending the ...
Portugal’s Decriminalization of Drug Use, Explained
In 2001, Portugal was experiencing an opioid-involved overdose crisis, similar to the one gripping ...
The Tricky Connection Between MAT and Low Sex Drive
Imagine going through opioid use disorder treatment with methadone or buprenorphine, perhaps getting a job and family ...
Tennessee Plan to Mandate Lockable Prescription Bottles May Help, But Only Slightly
New Tennessee legislation hopes to tackle teenage prescription opioid use by keeping pill bottles ...
Why Has Amazon Limited Sales of Drug Checking Kits?
Some harm reduction interventions, like safer consumption spaces, are criminalized. Others, like syringe exchanges, ...
Heroin Buyers Clubs Proposed by Researchers to Reduce Overdose
The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the ...
How I Started South Carolina’s Only Formal Syringe Exchange
When I was 19, living in New Jersey and injecting drugs, I found out ...
How My First LSD Trip Led Me to Accept My Sexuality
Someone had to tell me what to do with it: under your tongue, leave ...
Smoking: Just to Get By
Smoking is a stress relief,” says one of the interview subjects of this Filter film ...
