Tag: technology

    Harm Reduction Without Humans? The Risks and Potential of AI

    In November 2023, California teenager Sam Nelson put a question to ChatGPT. “How many ...

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    Brooke Nolan

    Fixing Electronics in Prison

    There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    Robotic Methadone Tech Not the Answer to Clinics’ Culture of Cruelty

    The methadone clinic cartel is increasingly turning to technology in order to stay in ...

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    Helen Redmond

    Fight Over Claimed Ownership of Drug-Checking Technology

    People have always had to fight for the right to test their drugs, to ...

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    Mattha Busby

    Community “Bad Batch” Alerts Contrast With Algorithmic OD Prevention

    In 2020, Ohio-based nonprofit the SOAR Initiative launched a pioneering “bad batch” alert system. ...

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    Sydney Sauer

    Making Phone Calls From Our Prison Costs Us More Than Just the Money

    Thirty years ago, Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners were only allowed one 15-minute ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    The Tech Companies Policing Methadone Patients for Profit

    Apparently, fingernails and hair create “layers of drug history.” At the Association for the ...

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    Helen Redmond