Conditions in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia, where I’ve reported for years, stand as a rebuke to a litany…
As the already-staggering death toll of the overdose crisis reaches historic heights, the United States' premier public health agency called…
The recognition that people who sell drugs can play a crucial role in reducing the harms caused by drug criminalization…
As the presence of illicit fentanyl has reached near-ubiquity in many North American heroin supplies, some harm reductionists have questioned…
It’s safe to say Joseph Palamar goes to a lot of raves. Since 2016, he’s attended more than 125 parties…
The “Walmart of Heroin” is how the New York Times described Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood—in a much-criticized October 2018 story that…
US-based harm reduction group DanceSafe and Canadian creative agency The Garden have partnered to present the "Coke Challenge" ahead of…
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
Last year, a man in his 20s attending Electric Forest, a Michigan music festival, began to cry after discovering that…
Don’t sit on your day job,” Daan van der Gouwe advised people who operate drug checking services. By which he…