Drugs, troublemaking, bad grades. At the close of 1968, Sidi was expelled from school. Now, the party could begin in earnest. He made music and lived in a filthy shared apartment, pretentiously ...

Tamera Lynn Stewart had been taking prescribed opioids for 12 years to treat her chronic pain, following some cancer-related surgeries. Then one day in April 2018, her doctor told her he could no ...

People with lived experience of using safer nicotine products for harm reduction take center stage on a new platform that aims to amplify their voices. THR Global collates real-life testimonies from ...

The most famous anti-smoking campaign in history was branded, simply, as @truth. It was launched in 2000 by the American Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded with $1.5 billion from the ...

Over two years ago, in June 2019, the city of Oakland, California became the first in the US to decriminalize plant-based entheogens including psilocybin, iboga, ayahuasca and mescaline cacti. Since ...

Whether because of fentanyl adulteration or the present pandemic, buying drugs from the “dark web”—a term for sites in the unsearchable “deep web” part of the internet that require specific software ...

Tanesia DeMacon is no stranger to jail. She estimates she was arrested no fewer than 15 times, starting at the age of 18 and continuing throughout her 20s. “I used to joke that county jail was school ...

Vaping with flavors versus having to vape without them: The difference might sound trivial. But people whose lives have been transformed by tobacco harm reduction see it as existential. “The ...

The need for harm reduction around alcohol use is both pressing and obvious. Yet too often—in a field dominated on the one hand by concerns over use of banned drugs, and on the other by the ubiquity ...

In 2012, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) collected data on everyone arrested in the last four years, and used it to create a surveillance system that would supposedly predict violent crime. The ...

From New York City to rural Oklahoma and across the world, harm reduction vending machines are gaining popularity. They offer a convenient way to access supplies like syringes, pipes, naloxone, ...

It was Christmas night. I was hosting my family here in Minnesota, feeling full and happy, watching my kids work their way through the morning’s spoils. All of a sudden, my phone buzzed. I checked it ...