overdose

The Fight to Open a Safe Consumption Site in Chicago

Illinois harm reduction advocates are urging state lawmakers to pass a bill authorizing safe consumption sites (also known as overdose…

May 17, 2023

Whiteout: A Searing Analysis of Racial Capitalism and Opioids

Does the world really need another book that examines the opioid-involved overdose crisis? There’s no shortage of tomes devoted to…

May 11, 2023

Fentanyl-Related Substances: Don’t Make Trump’s Policy Permanent

The vast majority (83 percent) of voters agree that the “War on Drugs” has been an abject failure. It has…

May 8, 2023

CO Safe Consumption Site Battle Wages in Senate, as Deadline Nears

In 2018, the Denver City Council approved a pilot program that would authorize a safe consumption site (SCS)—if the Colorado…

April 25, 2023

Opponents of Harm Reduction Strike as Safehouse Case in Mediation

Four Pennsylvania senators are throwing their political weight against overdose prevention, urging a federal court to block nonprofit Safehouse from…

April 18, 2023

Our Film Tour Is Exposing Methadone Clinics’ Cruelty

Swallow THIS: A Documentary About Methadone and COVID-19 is currently on tour nationwide. Marilena Marchetti and I made the film…

April 14, 2023

Fentanyl Cut With Xylazine Designated “Emerging Threat” by Feds

On April 12, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) formally designated xylazine, in combination with fentanyl,…

April 13, 2023

Indigenous Harm Reduction Group Behind Free Naloxone Mailing in WI

Any Wisconsin resident can now get free naloxone, the lifesaving opioid-overdose reversal drug, by mail. Like many others, the state…

April 12, 2023

Our Prison Says We Have Suboxone Access. Prisoners Say Otherwise.

Washington Corrections Center (WCC) is one of the Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities in the Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC)…

April 11, 2023

As Fentanyl Spreads in Our Prison, Guards Learn How Not to Use Narcan

At Washington Corrections Center (WCC), in Shelton, WA, opioids are an increasingly large part of the drug supply. But though…

April 7, 2023