overdose

Increasing Asian-Pacific Islander Overdose Deaths Were Ignored by NYC Report

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) New Yorkers saw the largest spike in overdose deaths of any racial group between…

September 5, 2019

Fentanyl, Inc: How Corporate Sales Floors Dominate the New Drugs Market

On the edge of Shanghai, men wearing balaclavas meet journalist Ben Westhoff at sunset. He’s blindfolded, pushed into a pickup…

September 3, 2019

Wake Up⁠—We Are Dying⁠! A Call to Action From People Who Use Drugs

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we, as people who use drugs from around the world, demand an end to the…

August 31, 2019

Watch: “Not One More!” Harlem Residents on Overdose Deaths

To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, I went out on the streets of Harlem and asked people for their thoughts…

August 31, 2019

Watch: Cops and a Judge Demand Harm Reduction to Fight Overdose

The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is a nonprofit organization of current and former police, judges, prosecutors and other justice…

August 31, 2019

What Should “Overdose Awareness” Really Mean?

Fatal overdoses may be slightly declining in the United States, according to preliminary 2018 data, but they are not falling…

August 29, 2019

Latinx New Yorkers Now Hit Hardest by Overdose, Amid Overall NYC Decline

For the first time in seven years, fatal overdoses are declining in New York City—a trend also provisionally observed on…

August 26, 2019

Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails

Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…

August 22, 2019

How Harm Reduction Is Serving⁠—and Failing⁠—Asian Americans

The “4th wave of the overdose crisis” has arrived, tweeted Brett Giroir, a top official in the US Department of…

August 21, 2019

Feds Dispute the Efficacy of Safe Consumption Sites at Safehouse Hearing

On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of a legal battle with the potential…

August 20, 2019