For years, pain patient activists have been sounding the alarm about the consequences of abruptly halting people's access to opioid…
Through the 1970s, Nicholas Kristof rode the Number 6 bus to school with Donna King, the Knapp’s five children, and…
One of the greatest hypocrisies in medicine is the restriction of standard-of-care medications for health professionals with opioid use disorder.…
[Update, February 28: Less than 12 hours after this report was published, Safehouse withdrew its plan to open a safe…
Brent Eaton, an Indiana county attorney, is prosecuting people who have survived overdoses by using the administration of naloxone (Narcan), the…
Many deaths involving GHB, a depressant that's popular in raves and chemsex scenes, in Australia might have been possibly prevented…
Drug overdoses (better described as toxic drug mixtures and poisonings) claimed nearly half a million lives in the US between…
People who use drugs in Chico, California have faced opposition in obtaining sterile harm reduction supplies. Following residents' complaints about…
An Indiana county attorney and police chief are working together to prosecute people who have suffered overdoses with felonies—and to…
In May 2019, Alex Billmeyer died from methamphetamine intoxication after being held in a Dubuque County, Iowa jail cell for…