Tag: opioids
Myriad New Drugs Complicate Legalization, as Well as Harm Reduction
Humans have found or created a truly staggering number of psychoactive substances. Some, like ...
Kratom Helps Me Cope With Life, So What’s the Problem?
A kilo is surprisingly heavy, I thought as I dropped the package onto my ...
2022 State of the Union Includes First-Ever Nod to Harm Reduction
The 2022 State of the Union address was the first such speech to mention ...
Prisoner Who Sued for Access to OUD Meds Is in Solitary as “Retaliation”
The man at the center of a pivotal legal battle over access to methadone ...
Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually
Back before I’d ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time ...
BC Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin and No One Can Use It Yet
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia’s overdose crisis has been declared ...
Parolees With Opioid Addiction Need Choices, Not a Naltrexone-Only Policy
Across the United States, people with opioid addiction who are on parole aren’t getting ...
Almost None of NC’s Drug Treatment Grant Recipients Offer Medication
North Carolina’s latest state budget allocated millions of dollars to organizations that will facilitate ...
Only a Fraction of Medicare Recipients With Opioid Use Disorder Are Receiving Medication
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Medicare recipients with opioid use disorder (OUD) are ...
Learning the Blues: West Coast Grapples With Shifting Drug Supply
“Forever, the prevalence of what kinds of drugs people did was completely boring,” Alex ...
