Tag: race
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 ...
As Major Report Estimates 5 Million Jailed Each Year, What Now?
At any given moment, there are roughly 600,000 people languishing in local American jails. ...
The First-Ever MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color Was Vital
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hosted the first-ever MDMA Therapy Training for ...
How Harm Reduction Is Serving—and Failing—Asian Americans
The “4th wave of the overdose crisis” has arrived, tweeted Brett Giroir, a top ...
DC Bid to Offer Compassion to People Convicted in Youth Draws Political Fire
Despite its very liberal reputation and national-level voting record, the capital of what some ...
Study Author Explains Extent to Which Police Violence Is a Public Health Hazard
On August 5, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a ...
Prosecutors’ Ridiculous Excuses for Excluding Black People From Juries
Lisa Middleman is running as an independent pro-criminal justice reform candidate in the election ...
California Set to Greatly Expand Controversial Pretrial Risk Assessments
A group of California judges and other jurists has recommended that millions of dollars ...
Much Work Remains to Undo Grotesque Legacy of the Rockefeller Drug Laws
New York’s Rockefeller Drug Laws, perhaps the most infamous embodiment of criminalizing addiction and ...
New York Decriminalizes Cannabis, But Fails to Address Injustice
After stalling cannabis legalization in spring 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into ...
