Every day, vulnerable New Yorkers are being forced to choose between accessing their lifesaving medication, or protecting themselves and their…
The COVID-19 crisis has taken so much away from people who use drugs in New York. An historic number of…
Seven months and more than a million deaths into the pandemic, scientists around the globe still don’t understand why some…
People are drinking (and using marijuana) more during the pandemic. Alarms have predictably been raised, but anxiety is misdirected. RAND…
Drug use is globally interconnected. Just thinking of the routes illegal drugs take up to the point of consumption—from being…
A few months ago I caught a life-threatening blood infection from a dirty needle. Well, probably. I don't know that…
When it comes reducing the risks and harms of COVID-19 faced by unhoused people, public health and human rights officials…
In May, the US House of Representatives passed CARES 2—the HEROES Act—another legislative package responding to COVID-19. The measure contained…
Hundreds of thousands have gathered across the country this summer to protest the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,…
In some ways, the coronavirus pandemic has hit marginalized people who use drugs the hardest. Harm reduction facilities have been…