Tag: overdose
Senate Narrowly Confirms Robert Califf as the Next Head of the FDA
On February 15, the Senate narrowly confirmed Dr. Robert Califf as the next commissioner ...
As People Who Use Drugs, We Are the Safer Supply Experts—Not Physicians
Safer supply saves lives. It’s that simple. People who use and sell drugs have ...
Arizona May Enact 35-Year Mandatory Minimum for “Drug Trafficking Homicide” of Kids
A kid dying of an opioid-involved overdose is a tragedy. Thankfully, it is comparatively ...
How Halifax’s Safe Supply Hotels Brought Hope in the Early Pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at ...
Prison for Selling Michael K. Williams Drugs Is Not Justice
Federal prosecutors in New York charged four men on February 2 in connection with ...
A BC Safe Supply Program Pushes the Medical Model as Far as It Will Go
In 2019, Canada funded an expansion of safe supply and put out a call ...
Appeal Dismissal Means New Alberta SCS Barriers Now Take Effect
Alberta harm reductionists are reeling as their appeal over an injunction against a new ...
BC Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin and No One Can Use It Yet
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia’s overdose crisis has been declared ...
Insurers Illegally Denying Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder Benefits
The US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury released a ...
Doubling Down on Fentanyl Myths, West Virginia Bill Would Punish “Exposing” Cops
On January 18, West Virginia legislators advanced a bill that would make “exposing” law ...
