Tag: overdose
Ohio Bills Seek to Decriminalize Fentanyl Test Strips
Ohio lawmakers are—slowly—considering legislation to decriminalize fentanyl test strips. On May 19, state Representative ...
The Methadone Clinic System Needs Abolition, Not a Tepid Reform Bill
Peter Vanderkloot’s groundbreaking article—Methadone: Medicine, Harm Reduction or Social Control—hit me hard. As a ...
Illinois County Giving Naloxone to Gas Stations, Restaurants and More
In the central region of Illinois, the Champaign-Urbana Health District (CUHD) is giving out ...
NY Bill to Expand Safe Consumption Sites Advances, With Time Short
A New York State Assembly committee has voted to advance legislation that would authorize ...
Record High Overdose Deaths—Yet Again—in 2021, CDC Reveals
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that ...
DULF Keeps Distributing Checked Drugs as Health Canada Flags Denial
On May 4 in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) distributed ...
DEA’s Rx Drug Take Back Day Branded Fun for All the Family
The worst thing I’ve seen suggested at one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s biannual ...
Biden’s Drug Strategy Mixes Harm Reduction With Harm Production
President Biden presented his 2022 National Drug Control Strategy to Congress on April 21. ...
Maine Set to Make Its Good Samaritan Law the “Strongest in the Nation”
On April 20, harm reduction advocates in Maine reached a deal with Democratic Governor ...
In Ohio, Harm Reductionists Break Into the Nightlife Scene
As Ohio overdose deaths continue to climb steeply, harm reduction workers around the state ...
