Today, International Drug Users Remembrance Day, is one day among all the others when the people we have lost continue…
On July 14 Jean Swanson, a city councillor of Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), helped to hand out free heroin during…
Former West Virginia health commissioner Dr. Rahul Gupta will lead President Joe Biden's response to the deadliest overdose crisis in…
[This story is published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, investigative news site covering New York state and city…
Eric Adams—the Brooklyn borough president, former state senator and former NYPD captain—is now the Democratic candidate for New York City…
I have a million stories about my older brother, Billy, that exemplify the harms of the United States criminal justice…
On June 29, the Rhode Island House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to authorize safe consumption sites,…
It’s not just people who use drugs making use of drug test kits and machines—people who also sell the substances…
In elementary school, my best friend Celina wanted to be a doctor when she grew up. She loved science, gave…
The United States is simultaneously experiencing two devastating public health crises—the COVID-19 pandemic and the overdose epidemic. As the rates…