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The First-Ever MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color Was Vital

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hosted the first-ever MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color between August 10-17…

August 23, 2019

Study Author Explains Extent to Which Police Violence Is a Public Health Hazard

On August 5, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study on police killings in the…

August 15, 2019

Women in Mexico’s Narco World Face Misogyny and Murder

It was a sunny day in Culiacán, the capital of both Sinaloa state in northwest Mexico and, arguably, of the…

August 13, 2019

Sinister Motives, Moral Panic Behind Florida’s Persecution of Sex Workers

Bruce Colton, the chief elected prosecutor of Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie Counties in Florida, is anything but…

June 12, 2019

How Drug Policy Fuels the Genocide of Indigenous Women in Canada

Cherisse was 17 years old in 2009, and had recently given birth to a baby boy. A member of the…

June 6, 2019

Women Who Use Drugs: Challenges Demand Self-Led Harm Reduction

Bree Cassell first injected heroin when she was 15 years old. Despite wanting to do so, she was so scared…

May 21, 2019

Number of Women Arrested for Drugs Increases at Four Times the Rate of Men

From 2013 to 2017, women in the United States experienced a rapid increase in the rate at which they were…

May 14, 2019

Coercion Into Addiction Treatment Is Ubiquitous: Five Ways It Happens

The range and intensity of coercion in addiction treatment isn’t well recognized. Yet coercion through Alcoholics Anonymous is long-established in…

May 14, 2019

Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult

Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor when it hit. They had just…

May 2, 2019

“Hotbed of Corruption”—NY Lawmakers Condemn Sex-Work Policing Amid Calls to Defund Vice Squad

New York state assembly members and senators, as well as a NYC councilmember, are calling on the  NYPD's inspector general…

April 22, 2019