We've Known for 40 Years How to Help Heroin Users
In the 1970s, New York City and Hong Kong figured out how to help heroin users without red tape or an abundance of experts.
In the 1970s, New York City and Hong Kong figured out how to help heroin users without red tape or an abundance of experts.
The Drug Policy Alliance documents an unjust prosecution trend that makes opioid fatalities more likely.
Did a small number of complaints get used to punish bureaucracy-rejecting physician?
The panel wants to make prescription analgesics even harder to obtain.
This week's show covers Robert Mueller's Russia probe, Jeff Flake's decision not to run, and the opioid crisis.
More innovative remedies will be needed to actually turn back the relentless onslaught of overdose fatalities.
Gottlieb isn't a perfect harm reduction advocate, but he's a hell of a lot better than the D.C. status quo.
Moral judgment of drug users overrules solutions that fight overdoses and halt the spread of disease.
The case for full legalization becomes stronger-and more politically acceptable-all the time.
An overdose death leads to an absurd prosecution.
Do the pain relief benefits of prescription opioids outweigh their addiction risks?
The DOJ has indicted two Chinese nationals for sending fentanyl to the U.S. Now what?
The drug czar nominee withdrew his name after being portrayed as the henchman of villains who profit from addiction.
What's the opposite of a gateway drug?
"We don't have enough space for them," said sheriff.
New CDC data finds fentanyl deaths doubled in 2016.
Preliminary data from the CDC suggest an unprecedented number of Americans died of a drug overdose last year.
Seize the drugs. Sell the drugs. Arrest the buyers. Repeat.
Maybe it's time to try a new approach?
The mayor's task force has also recommended the idea.
Lawmakers consider bill that lets eight counties experiment with safe spaces to use illegal drugs.
U.S. policymakers continue to pursue programs that punish at the expense of ones that save lives.
Some would rather have overdoses than risk "destigmatizing" addiction.
Heroin user take smaller doses if they know they're also taking fentanyl.
The CDC supplies more evidence that the war on drugs is making heroin more lethal.
He can continue pursuing lethal supply-side policies, or he can focus on saving lives through harm reduction.
Cannabis research turns another corner.
Sessions has dispensed with the myth that federal prison is just for big fish.
The president lacks subtlety or substance over a chronic public health problem-go figure.
The more drug warriors crack down on opioids, the more dangerous they become.
A new push to imprison those who prescribe too many opioids
At least it's not calling for harsher laws-yet.
Authorities look for new ways to hold others responsible for overdoses and throw them in jail.
Plodding prohibitionists try once again to ban drugs that do not exist yet.
A Middletown, Ohio, lawmaker wants paramedics to stop treating to overdose patients after two strikes.
"I take the Hippocratic oath seriously that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant, a California pain specialist who patients from across the nation are flocking to see.
Kennedy ("I think the problem is that heroin is illegal") and Kat Timpf say bluntly what Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson couldn't quite bring himself to advocate last year
The FDA pushed for tamper-proof opioids. Now it wants one of them off the market.
First degree murder charges for man who sold drug that led to overdose death.
The Sunshine State ratchets up the drug war.
Yet the DEA wants to ban it.
Safety measures help when opioid addicts won't stop.
Let doctors exercise their best professional judgment and prescribe opioids-free from the chilling effects created by monitoring government agencies.
Florida's anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives.
You'd think Lake County must be some sort of trafficking hotbed. It's not.