Tag: health care
More Unsanctioned OPC to Pop Up Outside Hospitals Across Canada
Two months after doctors in British Columbia set up a pair of unsanctioned overdose ...
Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing
[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview ...
How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing
Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a ...
Psilocybin Helped Doctors and Nurses Who Worked Through the Pandemic
Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst ...
GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry
Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 ...
To Get Methadone in Jail, I Had to Hide It in My Prosthetic Leg
The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as ...
Overdose Prevention Centers Are Health Care: Treat Them as Such
Nearly 300 people across the country die of a drug overdose every day. This ...
Mental Health Hospitalization in Italy Was an Improvement on the States
In-patient mental health care is regrettably often carceral to some degree. Any system built ...
Too Many Pharmacies Still Failing to Facilitate Harm Reduction
Pharmacies can have an important role in the prevention of overdose and other drug-related ...
BC Lawsuit Highlights Harms of Opioid Prescribing Crackdown
A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors ...
