On September 26, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (D) unveiled his proposed 2024 budget. It indicates the city will not be…
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells the story of how Elizabeth Elliot…
To harm reductionists in the United States, Canada can sound like a bastion of progressive, evidence-based drug policies. Naloxone is…
No drugs, no pain, very low cost, and it can break treatment-resistant trauma in one-to-five sessions? If such a treatment…
Standing in the courtroom as I awaited sentencing, the light tapping of the stenographer gave me déjà vu. The watchful…
On July 1, as Washington State's embattled "Blake decision" expires, a new drug possession law takes effect. After a winding…
Republican Senators in Oregon are staging a "walkout" from the Democrat-controlled state legislature. The move, framed as a protest against…
When Alice* was 12 years old, her mother discovered some diary entries she had written about experimenting with drugs, and…
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome is a hypothetical condition in which a set of symptoms persist long after a person has undergone…
The roots of today’s stigmatization of people who use drugs—and of paternalistic, exploitative, often cruel approaches to what we now…