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States Squander Opportunity of Billions of Dollars in Federal Treatment Grants

The overdose crisis is claiming a historic number of lives almost every year in the US, while addiction medications remain…

December 15, 2020

California’s Struggle for Safe Consumption Spaces Moves Forward

In California, the grassroots-led struggle for safe consumption spaces has taken a big step forward. On December 7, state legislators…

December 9, 2020

Pandemic Is Making Overdoses Deadlier, Research Shows

Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the first available research has finally measured what harm reductionists have known…

December 8, 2020

I Recently Used Naloxone to Save a Life. Limiting Access Is Unforgivable.

One moment, I was dabbing off a smudge of eyeliner in front of the bathroom mirror, just a commonplace, mundane…

November 30, 2020

Harm Reduction “Satellite Sites” Are a Powerful, Underutilized Model

People who use drugs have been taking care of each other ever since people have used drugs. And practicing care…

November 19, 2020

Saving Lives or “Promoting” Use? Judges to Decide Safehouse’s Purpose—And Future

The future of what could be the United States' first legal safe consumption site (SCS) currently hinges, in large part,…

November 18, 2020

My Husband Invented Naloxone, My Son Died of Overdose. Oregon Gives Me Hope.

On election day, voters in Oregon took a decisive and important step to stemming the tide of overdose deaths and other drug-related…

November 18, 2020

Alberta Government Rejects Safe Supply, Bets Heavily on Abstinence

As an experienced harm reduction nurse in Alberta, Corey Ranger has been on the front lines of the overdose crisis.…

October 26, 2020

Inside the CDC Data That Confirm the Pandemic Is Driving Up Overdose Deaths

For months, media outlets including Filter have reported on a collage of anecdotal and local alerts from around the country…

October 22, 2020

The Shameful Closure of North America’s Busiest Safe Consumption Site

We Canadians may like to think of ourselves as more progressive than our southern neighbours when it comes to drug…

September 24, 2020