fentanyl

National Guard Drops $100K on Fentanyl Fear-Mongering Classes for Cops

The ongoing panic around fentanyl, a potent opioid that is driving the overdose crisis, is being stoked among law enforcement…

September 12, 2019

Are Fentanyl-Meth Deaths in Indiana Due to Contamination, or “Speedballing”?

Marion County, Indiana is seeing a troubling rise in deaths related to methamphetamine combined with fentanyl, according to the Indiana…

September 9, 2019

Fentanyl, Inc: How Corporate Sales Floors Dominate the New Drugs Market

On the edge of Shanghai, men wearing balaclavas meet journalist Ben Westhoff at sunset. He’s blindfolded, pushed into a pickup…

September 3, 2019

Watch: “Not One More!” Harlem Residents on Overdose Deaths

To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, I went out on the streets of Harlem and asked people for their thoughts…

August 31, 2019

Watch: Fentanyl Safety Campaign Poses the “Coke Challenge”

US-based harm reduction group DanceSafe and Canadian creative agency The Garden have partnered to present the "Coke Challenge" ahead of…

August 29, 2019

What Should “Overdose Awareness” Really Mean?

Fatal overdoses may be slightly declining in the United States, according to preliminary 2018 data, but they are not falling…

August 29, 2019

Latinx New Yorkers Now Hit Hardest by Overdose, Amid Overall NYC Decline

For the first time in seven years, fatal overdoses are declining in New York City—a trend also provisionally observed on…

August 26, 2019

“Go Slow”—Baltimore’s Peer-Led Fentanyl Harm Reduction Campaign

Public education campaigns about drugs often rely on ineffective and stigmatizing scare tactics. They spread fear and shame that make…

August 7, 2019

CDC: Fatal Overdoses Are More Common in Cities Than Rural Areas

In 2017, overdoses in urban areas occurred more frequently than those in rural places, according to a new Center for…

August 6, 2019

Rising Meth-Involved Deaths of Major Concern Amid Estimated 2018 Overdose Fall

For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according to preliminary Center for Disease Control…

July 22, 2019