At pivotal times, medical providers could have helped Alex. Instead, they labeled him an "addict" and chastised him for "bad ...

Patricia is Professor Emerita of Sociology from Rutgers University. Rutgers University Press published her book, Surviving ...

Drug policy experts agree that the brazen killing of 11 people is "an extraordinary break in norms" that won't serve its ...

Pharma companies once pitched their drugs only to medical professionals. Then in the 1980s they began advertising to the ...

A meeting billed as a discussion of "public health-centered solutions" devolved into talk of more crackdowns and more ...

New research illustrates well-worn truths about the futility of punitive approaches to drug use. Meanwhile, New York cracks ...

A novel human lab study, not yet published, promises more evidence that cannabis can be a substitute for some people who ...

Almost all the jobs at this prison are in the education department. Being a student pays $0.26 an hour, and revolves around ...

Some convictions punishable by death or life in prison can be resentenced to a new minimum of 10 years—with the potential for ...

The Government Accountability Office found that CBP and ICE have "limited" ability to understand the impact of their ...

Momentum builds as Germany, the Czech Republic and the UK are among nations to have recently taken dramatic or incremental ...

While waging war in the Caribbean to "protect Americans," the administration is slashing lifesaving care for PWUD, as a new ...