Tag: fentanyl
You Can No Longer Be Arrested for Carrying Fentanyl Test Strips in Philly
On August 2, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that city police will no longer ...
The Pernicious Myth of Fentanyl-Laced Cannabis
A recent Washington Post piece on the ever-worsening increase in drug poisoning deaths has ...
Vancouver Activists Hand Out Drugs, Demand Better Safe Supply Options
On July 14 Jean Swanson, a city councillor of Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), helped ...
Nightlife Is Reopening, But the Drugs Have Changed—And So Have We
“All of my friends in the scene have been going back out a lot,” ...
Advocates Call on Feds to End Fentanyl Analogs’ Schedule I Classification
On April 8, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) spearheaded a coalition—including the Leadership Conference ...
Federal Funding Can Now Be Used to Purchase Fentanyl Test Strips
The United States federal government has taken a step to make good on its ...
Our Adulterated Supply: Underreported Complications for Opioid Users
When I began using heroin on the West Coast in the late 2000s, it ...
The Last Days of Heroin: Fentanyl’s Rise and the Pattern It Represents
Five years ago, British Columbia saw a change. People who use drugs in the ...
Ohio Students Launch Harm Reduction and “Bad Batch” Alerts App
A student-led nonprofit in Columbus, Ohio, has created a smartphone app that helps community ...
What Surging Fentanyl Use Among OAT Patients Says About the Pandemic
During the height of the COVID-19 lockdown in Ontario, Canada, the proportion of mandatory, ...
