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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, routine drug screens imposed on opioid…

January 5, 2021

Colombia Weighs Cocaine Legalization Bid, Reboots Aerial Eradication

Colombia, the source of 90 percent of the world's cocaine supply, is split on the political future of its coca…

December 30, 2020

How UK Club Bouncers Prey On People Who Use Drugs

For college students in Britain, where the culture of electronic music is deeply embedded in the university experience, fear of…

December 30, 2020

Mexico Lawmakers Reclaim Sovereignty From DEA

On December 15, Mexico lawmakers passed a law reining in the asymmetrical, imperialist influence of the United States' Drug Enforcement…

December 17, 2020

Revealing Trends in Russia’s Dark-Web Drug Markets

Heroin use became widespread in Russia in the late 1990s, amid the opening of international borders and social upheaval and…

December 16, 2020

A “Humane” Global Drug War Is Possible, House Commission Tells Biden

About 20 minutes into a US House of Representatives hearing on the findings of the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission—a…

December 14, 2020

Worldwide COVID-19 Decarceration: A Lost Opportunity

COVID-19 has impacted us all, but people who are incarcerated have been among the hardest hit. Calls for large-scale releases…

December 10, 2020

My Study of Providing Vapes to Unhoused Smokers in Ireland

While I was volunteering at an Irish homelessness service called Dublin Simon Community a couple of years ago, I helped…

December 7, 2020

A Fentanyl User’s Dispiriting Search for Safe Supply in Toronto

When I heard earlier this year that a safe supply of opioids would be made more widely available for people…

December 3, 2020

Burning Issues: A Call to Liberate Vapes and Vapers

“Tobacco harm reduction is good public health and health promotion, starting with the people who matter: smokers and those who…

December 1, 2020