I n 2020 when I was nearing the end of my 10-year prison sentence, I started repeatedly bugging Tennessee Department of ...

The deaths throw more focus on efforts to close the notorious jail complex, as Mamdani begins moving some vulnerable people off the island.

This landmark, following mass-migration to safer options, means less suffering and death. But will other countries learn the obvious lesson?

A central problem with this type of legislation is that it says MOUD access must be uninterrupted, while only offering it at ...

When it comes to methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, Representative Erin Houchin, a Trump–supporting Republican from Indiana, wants to gut the 2024 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

Much of the department's 2027 budget request presents the AHA as an agency that already exists, despite Congress having so far rejected it.

Bolsonaro has joined Brazil’s pioneering program Remission Through Reading, in which prisoners can reduce their sentence via ...

A Rhode Island law regulating kratom sales is now in effect, making the state the first to overturn a former Schedule I ban on the drug.

The proposal cuts most HUD grant programs, but allocates $152 million to start work on Alcatraz. There's always money for ...

Medetomidine is the direct successor to xylazine. It's not associated with soft-tissue infections, but has distinct side ...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D), who took office in January, has a huge responsibility to continue advances made in harm reduction access under her predecessor, Phil Murphy (D). She has ...