What two Canadians can teach us about the United States’ broken drug policy
What Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx did was a legit shot across the bow and a reminder that there are ways to save lives other than arresting people or blowing up boats.
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A determined joy
On Veterans Day, columnist Jack Shuler remembers the people like his grandfather, an Army Air Corps pilot who experienced tragedy but still held to joy as he worked to move the world forward.
Fentanyl doesn’t come from Venezuela and other truths in front of your nose
Since early September, the Trump administration has ordered nine attacks in international waters, killing at least 37 people on boats that authorities claim without evidence are carrying drugs to be trafficked to the United States.
Newark group distributes nearly 100 doses of opioid overdose reversal drug as part of national event
Organizations in every state participated in 'Save-a-Life Day,' raising awareness about naloxone.
Be bold. Be brave.: Lessons from a visit to the Resistance Museum
The catalog of harm keeps growing, with new pages added every day. But we are not afraid.
How the poor die
The story of the overdose crisis is also a story about health care and what happens when people have limited or no access to it.
A different justice: The HALT Fentanyl Act traffics in fear, not fact
‘We know that prohibition itself is what's causing the [overdose] crisis.’
Political choices, political crimes: Harm reduction faces pushback around the world
Machteld Busz said the ‘tough on crime’ narrative works on voters in the Netherlands, too, despite the country’s long embrace of harm reduction practices.
We have to find each other: Surviving and resisting fascism through communal narratives
Garth Mullins' new memoir, ‘Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs,’ avoids the toxic self-made-man myth and embraces the power of community. There are strong lessons in it for this social and political moment.
The human cost of cynicism
Nothing is more cynical than using the passing of people who have died from an overdose as an excuse to launch trade wars while at the same time gutting agencies that support people who use drugs or who are addicted.