Tag: fentanyl
Safe Consumption Site in Philly Has 90 Percent Support Among Locals
Communities most impacted by the overdose crisis are more likely to back groundbreaking interventions ...
Three Recent Stories Illustrate the Media’s Ongoing Drug-War Propaganda
Three widely distributed stories from the past couple of months illustrate the profound ways ...
How the World’s Oldest Drug Checking Service Makes High-Risk Pills “Unsellable”
Don’t sit on your day job,” Daan van der Gouwe advised people who operate ...
Trump Doubles Down on “Drug-Free” America and the Death Penalty
President Donald Trump’s contradictory messages about his response to the opioid-involved overdose crisis were ...
DEA’s “Innovative” Strategy in New Orleans Encourages Ever-Harsher Prosecutions
On April 16, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) launched its latest punishment-driven, treatment-inflected response ...
Now the CDC Seems to Be Pushing Fentanyl Myths in Its New Video
On March 27, the Centers for Disease Control, in collaboration with the Fredericksburg, Virginia Police ...
“Patently False” Fentanyl Myth Peddled by Vermont Police Chief
On March 15, Brett Flansburg, a Vermont state trooper, collapsed in the parking lot ...
“Yellow Peril”—How Blaming China for Fentanyl Continues a Racist Legacy
As the overdose crisis roars on, various stakeholders seek to assign blame for these ...
How a Paraplegic Drug User Became a Victim of Involuntary Commitment
Barely a day passes on my beat without my meeting someone with a harrowing ...
Heroin Buyers Clubs Proposed by Researchers to Reduce Overdose
The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the ...
