Our cognitive biases, per Nobel-winner Daniel Kahneman and colleague Amos Tversky, cause us to value short-term benefits over staving off…
A common misconception about people who use heroin is that they all want to get as high as possible, that…
In July 2019, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released preliminary data suggesting that national overdose deaths slightly…
In the driveway next to an old brick church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the type of building that punctuates neighborhoods…
New York safe consumption site (SCS) advocates have been fueled by last week's landmark decision in Philadelphia, when Judge Gerald…
The violent and inhumane conditions pervading Florida state prisons are graphically detailed in a covertly-recorded documentary by an incarcerated man,…
Harm reduction is increasingly being assimilated into the medical establishment. Yet some people who use drugs continue to report that…
In 2017 the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute (BHLI), a Baltimore nonprofit, rented a truck. The large white GMC van sits…
The “Walmart of Heroin” is how the New York Times described Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood—in a much-criticized October 2018 story that…
In Ontario, a Canadian province with large rural regions, one pharmacist is no longer waiting for patients to come to…