Tag: fentanyl
Why San Francisco Drug Users Are Injecting Less, Smoking Fentanyl More
Many people who use drugs in San Francisco have been reducing their injecting of ...
Biden Looks to Make Harsh Criminalization of Fentanyl Analogs Permanent
President Joe Biden is seeking to extend indefinitely a Trump-era rule on the scheduling ...
Vancouver Activists Mark Overdose Awareness Day With Free Safe Supply
On August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day, activists in Vancouver handed out free safe ...
Hip Hop and Harm Reduction on Tour
Hip hop, like other music genres, is no stranger to drug overdose. The list ...
Latest Overdose Fatality Numbers Underscore Flaw in Federal Data
More than 95,000 people died of overdose in the United States between January 2020 ...
A Guide to Fentanyl Touch Overdoses, Which Do Not Exist
Once as a paramedic student, I accidentally sprayed fentanyl in my face. It was ...
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,” ...
