A legal battle is raging over the fate of the Louisville, Kentucky police. Federal officials are demanding that the city…
In September 2020, a truck pulled over in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to report an overdose. Cheryl Delorme had lost consciousness…
Minneapolis, the city where a police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, has agreed to let the federal government monitor…
Oregon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple possession of all drugs from early…
Hundreds of thousands of people are still being arrested for marijuana possession in the United States. New data are a…
Ask the average news consumer to think of "police shooting" and the names most likely to come to mind would…
Tim Walz was announced as the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on August 6, and took the…
D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man, died after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards at the Hyatt Regency…
A planned sobering center in Portland, Oregon is mired in controversy. Its opening has been pushed back to fall 2026.…
Overdose prevention researchers like me are familiar with the harms caused by the expansion of policing and surveillance. A steady…