On June 30, 2022, Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, closed its doors for good. It was the last facility…
The true measure of how a prison treats its prisoners can be found in their tattoos. Hands clasped in prayer;…
Winning a prize for my laughable “dancing” skills at a bar in Havana was a major surprise. But it should…
Many health care organizations have praised, as they should, the repeal of the X-waiver that unjustifiably restricted buprenorphine prescribing. Buprenorphine…
In a comment published in Nature Medicine, four leading researchers marshal the evidence that vapes can be used as a…
Many people who vape, or are otherwise involved in tobacco harm reduction, will remember the summer of 2019. That was…
As someone who identifies as Black and as an advocate for the end of marijuana criminalization and its harms, I’m…
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has just published a video, featuring Johanna Cohen, the Bloomberg professor of…
Many people I've spent Christmas with in prison have described this time of year the same way: feeling like there's…
From the moment I began openly acknowledging my opioid use—often via self-deprecating jokes, at least to friends—people shamed me. This…