Tag: alcohol
Reason to Raise a Glass: The Alcohol-Zero-Tolerance Project Is Doomed
The World Health Organization has declared that there is no safe level of drinking—a ...
So We’re Drinking Our Way Through the Pandemic? It’s What Drugs Are For.
People are drinking (and using marijuana) more during the pandemic. Alarms have predictably been ...
“We Will Strap You Down”—A Hospital Illegally Forced Me Into a Detox Ward
It will go easier on you if you cooperate with them,” said the nursing ...
21 to Drink? The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status
America’s minimum drinking age law, set nationally at 21 since 1984, appears to be ...
Alcohol Harm Reduction: A World of Growing Possibilities
In her early professional life, Louise liked to unwind with wine. She loved the ...
The Perpetual Pendulum of US Drinking Guidelines
Every five years, the United States produces a set of health recommendations entitled Dietary ...
Giving Alcohol, Nicotine, Marijuana to Isolated Homeless People Is Harm Reduction
Seeking positives in current times can feel futile. But for drug policy reformers, there ...
“The Great” Offers a Window Into a Non-Temperance Way of Being
Netflix is currently screening The Great, a 10-part series portraying the improbable, nay astounding, ...
Coronavirus Drug Policies Echo Plague Scapegoating of the Past
Infectious waves of illness that flash flood through cities, regions and—rarely but occasionally—all continents, ...
How the Pandemic Is Restricting Health Options for People Who Use Drugs
For the average non-essential worker, it might feel like the coronavirus has put the ...
