Coinciding with Juneteenth, a day honoring the emancipation of enslaved peoples, Congress held the first hearing on reparations for Black…
Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May 26, yelling that people were shooting…
On June 11, New York City public defenders released data demonstrating that district attorneys are continuing to prosecute "low-level" marijuana…
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Senate…
Here’s a good formula for dystopia: a ”spit-and-acquit” program to create a genetic surveillance system in return for non-prosecution of…
When people who are dependent on opioids are incarcerated and denied access, they go into withdrawal—an often-painful condition with symptoms…
Every person in prison is a policy failure," is a common phrase in abolitionist circles. But of course it's not…
More than 40 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, seven fatally, in what has become a grim Memorial Day…
Harm reduction funding around the world is stalling. By extension, harm reductionists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) are…
Last year, a man in his 20s attending Electric Forest, a Michigan music festival, began to cry after discovering that…