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I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local mutual aid network in Michigan. I’ll…
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[This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance, which was published in…
The United States is simultaneously experiencing two devastating public health crises—the COVID-19 pandemic and the overdose epidemic. As the rates…