opioids

Legal Syringe Programs Could Finally Be Arriving in Iowa

In Iowa City, Ben, a 26-year-old who has been using heroin for years, met the Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition while…

March 27, 2019

Beyond Purdue: Our Deadly Unlearned Lessons From the Overdose Crisis

There is a profound moment in the film And The Band Played On, about the early days of the US…

March 27, 2019

Mixed Outcomes and Ethical Questions at New York’s “Opioid Courts”

Early one morning in January 2018, Bruce Gramiack Jr. awoke to find his cellmate's "lifeless body on the floor" at…

March 26, 2019

Inside Vancouver’s Drug User Union

The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) is a member-driven organization that organizes to improve the lives of people…

March 19, 2019

Dietary Supplement? Or Drug? The Kratom Regulation Debate

Is kratom a plant (Mitragyna speciosa)—originating in Southeast Asia and long used in traditional medicines for the mild opioid-like and…

March 12, 2019

A “Competence Vacuum” in Trump’s Opioid Response Team

In January, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) outlined its strategy "to address, head on, the current opioid crisis"—yet they…

March 8, 2019

Intoxication Has Always Been the American Way—Let’s Work With That

Mood modification through drugs—intoxication—is a standard cultural reality in American history, but possibly even more so today. Rather than hopelessly…

March 6, 2019

Study: A Seattle Safer Consumption Site Would Save Money, as Well as Lives

Just one safer consumption space (SCS) for people who use drugs in Kings County, Washington would generate annual savings worth…

March 5, 2019

“Never Give Up”—State Commission Urges Mass. to Move for Supervised Consumption Sites

The Massachusetts Commission on Harm Reduction issued a report on March 1 recommending the development of supervised consumption spaces (SCS)…

March 4, 2019

How a Paraplegic Drug User Became a Victim of Involuntary Commitment

Barely a day passes on my beat without my meeting someone with a harrowing story about the impact of zero-tolerance…

February 27, 2019