It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the first or any other step on…
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells the story of how Elizabeth Elliot…
Three 18-year-old kids shuffle into Herbal Spirit, a smartshop in The Hague, on the Netherlands coast. One of them, clearly…
On August 25, the New York Office of Public Safety held a briefing ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day. It…
In the summer of 1992, a few weeks after I'd learned I had HIV, I was down at the local…
The top Democrat in the Wisconsin Senate has released a marijuana policy “zine” featuring information and cartoon illustrations about the…
When the harm reduction movement emerged, survival was front of mind: Policymakers were leaving drug users, sex workers and queer and…
One of the most intriguing emails I have ever received hit my inbox in 2021. This, in part, is how…
Brenda* was in her late 40s, and living with severe rheumatoid arthritis. She sought treatment with me because she was…
When I interviewed Kim Dabelstein Petersen in the back of an empty midtown-Manhattan coffee shop, he had just attended a…