The overdose crisis claims over 100,000 lives each year in the United States, but has received very little attention from…
A major outbreak of violence in Culiacán, Mexico, spotlights United States drug war tactics and puts hard questions to new…
On a sunny day in Milwaukee, I drove downtown to interview a presidential candidate. The city has buzzed with political…
Beginning September 1, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) will no longer deliver physical mail to the nearly 23,000 people…
June 26 is the annual “Support. Don’t Punish.” day—an impressive global initiative to promote harm reduction and drug policies that…
Almost all controlled substances in the United States are criminalized by weight. There are thresholds that legally separate possession from…
On June 2, Mexico decisively elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. Once she takes office on October 1, she'll…
Overdose prevention researchers like me are familiar with the harms caused by the expansion of policing and surveillance. A steady…
In July 2016, three Nigerians and one Indonesian were ferried to Nusa Kambangan, known as the “island of flowers,” off…
In 2017, Sarah Laurel was trying to find housing at the same time she was entering recovery. Kensington, Philadelphia, seemed…