Tag: overdose
“I Can’t Breathe”—The Haunting Urgency of Juice WRLD’s Post-OD Album
Since the December 8, 2019 fatal overdose of Jarad Higgins—a Black rapper who went ...
How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police
Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to ...
New Spike in Coronavirus Cases Could Further Worsen Overdose Crisis
As many US jurisdictions have eased pandemic restrictions, new coronavirus cases have been spiking ...
Support, Don’t Punish 2020: A Global Day of Action Against the Drug War
Friday, June 26 marks the Support, Don’t Punish 2020 Global Day of Action—an annual ...
Methadose: A Parable of Putting Profit Before Human Lives
Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work ...
New K2 Compound in Canadian Heroin Supply Amid Surging Fatal ODs
A little-known synthetic cannabinoid, a class of compounds colloquially referred to as “K2” or ...
Telehealth Must Stay After COVID-19 to Save Our Patients From Overdose
March 2020. The stakes were enormous and the urgency acute: 1,000 of our patients ...
Most Baltimore Primary Candidates Back Safe Consumption Sites
A survey released by Baltimore-based safe consumption site (SCS) advocacy group the BRIDGES (Baltimore ...
The Paradox of an “Evidence-Based” Anti-Drug Media Campaign
The push for evidence-based drug policy is clashing head-on with a drug war rooted ...
Why Isotonitazene Is Not Yet the “New Fentanyl”
In the span of about a year, isotonitazene, a novel psychoactive substance (NPS), went ...
