In the context of the drug war, Colorado is best known for pioneering a number of high-profile reforms. In 2012,…
The successor to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is making good on her promise to ramp up the drug…
When Toronto’s Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site opened as an unsanctioned service in August 2017, drug-checking data contributed by staff…
The chocolate chip cookie theory of fentanyl distribution in counterfeit "pharmaceutical" pills holds that when the pills are pressed, the…
On July 21, the Biden administration released its “Safer America Plan,” part of its budget for the 2023 fiscal year.…
People mixing stimulants and opioids is not a new phenomenon. Mixing heroin and cocaine, a “speedball,” was fairly common practice…
Overdose deaths among Black and Indigenous people in the United States surged in 2020, rising at far faster rates than…
It’s hard to write a story about events of which you have almost no recollection. But as the days pass,…
Ohio lawmakers are—slowly—considering legislation to decriminalize fentanyl test strips. On May 19, state Representative Kristin Boggs (D) testified before the…
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that almost 108,000 people died of a…