On November 1st, Wilmington, North Carolina resident Jonathan Hayes plowed his pickup truck into the back of a family car, killing a two-year-old boy, Mason Richardson, and injuring the boy’s…
The unprecedented shift on the federal and local level towards a health-based approach to drug use seemed to signal the impending demise of a $1 trillion drug war that has…
As my plane touched ground in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a svelte voice came over the intercom. “Ladies and gentlemen. We hope you have enjoyed your flight with Air Asia. Just a…
We’ve all seen the cliché movie script: squalid drug user decides to get clean, goes to a few meetings that start with “Hi, I’m John and I’m an addict,” and…
On June 5, the 2015 Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference kicked off with a most unusual opening. Far from the drudgery of hotel lobbies, conference goers in bathing…
The issue of drug use is fraught with stigma and strong opinions, but no topic causes such lightning rod reactions as pregnant women who use drugs or have drug-exposed newborns.
One glance at the mass of black and brown faces locked in prison on nonviolent drug charges and it’s clear that the so-called War on Drugs has deep roots in…
It was a raucous morning in Baltimore on October 23 as the Harm Reduction Coalition kicked off its 10th national conference at the Downtown Renaissance Harborplace Hotel.
Just a few years ago, no one imagined that police would save lives at the scene of a drug overdose instead of making arrests. But today law enforcement departments across…
The first time I visited Catalyst Community Church to deliver a workshop on drug overdose prevention, I mistook it for a tire shop. Lost in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I drove…