Tag: COVID-19
Inside the CDC Data That Confirm the Pandemic Is Driving Up Overdose Deaths
For months, media outlets including Filter have reported on a collage of anecdotal and ...
“What Delivery Service?”—New Yorkers Left Risking Their Lives to Get Methadone
Every day, vulnerable New Yorkers are being forced to choose between accessing their lifesaving ...
NY Harm Reductionists Face Pandemic Shortage of Syringes and Other Supplies
The COVID-19 crisis has taken so much away from people who use drugs in ...
COVID and Vaping: A Perfect Storm of Misleading Science and Media
Seven months and more than a million deaths into the pandemic, scientists around the ...
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 ...
Russian Drug Users Describe Life and Trends During the Pandemic
Drug use is globally interconnected. Just thinking of the routes illegal drugs take up ...
Lacking Access to Clean Needles, I Caught a Life-Threatening Blood Infection
A few months ago I caught a life-threatening blood infection from a dirty needle. ...
Rezoning City Land Into Campgrounds? Emergency Homelessness Proposals Amid COVID-19
When it comes reducing the risks and harms of COVID-19 faced by unhoused people, ...
Congress Must Pass COVID-19 Legislation to Depopulate Jails and Prisons
In May, the US House of Representatives passed CARES 2—the HEROES Act—another legislative package ...
Don’t Blame Protests for COVID—Defund Police for Communities’ Health
Hundreds of thousands have gathered across the country this summer to protest the police ...
