Tag: COVID-19
How Halifax’s Safe Supply Hotels Brought Hope in the Early Pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at ...
Rikers Strike Against Horrendous Conditions Draws Political Support
Elected officials are rallying outside of the Rikers Island Detention Complex on January 13 ...
People Changed the Ways They Use Drugs During the Pandemic
The 2021 Global Drug Survey (GDS), the newly published report from the largest annual ...
Homeless New Yorkers Fight for Their Rights as Hotel Evictions Continue
Winston Tokuhisa first became homeless in 2006, at the age of 20. Since then, ...
How Can We Improve COVID Vaccine Access for People Who Use Drugs?
Millions of Americans are happy to finally be venturing out of their quarantine cocoons, ...
Can the Pandemic Usher in a New Age of Harm Reduction Awareness?
While still suffering the toll of a deadly global virus, we begin the delicate ...
Politicians Cite COVID-19 Science; What About the Smoking Pandemic?
And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, ...
A Year Into COVID, Prisoners Still in the Dark About Stimulus Checks
Nearly 13 months since the first coronavirus relief bill was signed and nearly three ...
Unhoused Berkeley, CA Residents Struggle for Water During Pandemic
There’s a cruel irony to lacking access to quality water as the sky pours ...
Our Outdated Washington Prison Leaves Us Vulnerable to Climate and COVID
The Washington State Reformatory (WSR), where I’ve been incarcerated for the past three years, ...
