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Harm Reduction

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Vaping

To Protect 'Children' From E-Cigarettes, Congress Imposes New Restrictions on Everything Related to Vaping of Any Kind

The law bans mail delivery of vaping products and requires all vendors to comply with burdensome tax reporting rules.

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2020 1:25 PM

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Public Health

The CDC's Shift From Vaping to COVID-19 Highlights the Crucial Differences Between Real and Metaphorical Epidemics

The agency's scaremongering about e-cigarettes undermined its credibility on the eve of a true public health crisis.

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2020 2:40 PM

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Drug Policy

Trump Attacks Biden on Drug Policy From the Left

It's an interesting strategy for a president who ran in 2016 on a Nixonian "law and order" platform.

Jacob Sullum | 3.9.2020 2:10 PM

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Harm Reduction

Philadelphia Safe Injection Site Opening Delayed

Blame angry neighbors, not the feds.

Scott Shackford | 3.2.2020 2:15 PM

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Harm Reduction

Philadelphia Poised To Open America's First Public Safe Injection Site in Just a Week

Federal judge confirms ruling that it doesn’t violate federal “crack house” law.

Scott Shackford | 2.26.2020 1:30 PM

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E-cigarettes

8 Months Later, This Journal Still Hasn't Corrected Its Study Implying That E-Cigarettes Magically Cause Heart Attacks Before People Use Them

The Journal of the American Heart Association has responded to critics with nothing but boilerplate promises of scientific integrity.

Jacob Sullum | 2.7.2020 2:20 PM

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Vaping

FDA Announces Ban on Flavored E-Cigarette Cartridges, Exempting E-Liquids Used in Refillable Vapes

For now, the FDA is targeting the vaping products that are most popular with teenagers. But the industry still faces a potentially devastating regulatory deadline.

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2020 3:10 PM

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E-cigarettes

FDA Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes Is Expected to Exempt Open-System E-Liquids

In response to intense opposition from vapers and the industry, the Trump administration has recalibrated its plan.

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2020 2:20 PM

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Vaping

Since Adolescent Drug Use Trends Are Otherwise Unalarming, Let's Freak Out About Vaping

The government and the press focus on newfangled contraptions instead of drug-related harm.

Jacob Sullum | 12.19.2019 8:00 AM

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E-cigarettes

Public Health Scholars Warn: 'Prohibitionist' E-Cigarette Policies Undermine a 'Tremendous' Harm Reduction Opportunity

The Science article is a wake-up call for people who claim to be concerned about smoking-related disease and death.

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2019 12:50 PM

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E-cigarettes

Although Teenagers Are 80% Less Likely to Smoke Than They Were in 1999, the CDC Insists No Progress Has Been Made

The agency’s indifference between smoking and vaping is scientifically indefensible.

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2019 2:30 PM

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E-cigarettes

As the FDA Prepares to Ban E-Cigarette Flavors, the Government's Own Data Contradict Wild Claims About Adolescent Nicotine Addiction

The ban's supporters falsely claim that "a whole generation of young people" is "addicted to these products."

Jacob Sullum | 11.6.2019 1:35 PM

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Tobacco

The Belated Approval of a Harm-Reduction Claim for Smokeless Tobacco Highlights the Potentially Deadly Impact of FDA Censorship

The FDA finally has agreed to allow a mild statement about the relative hazards of snus and cigarettes.

Jacob Sullum | 10.25.2019 2:00 PM

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Heroin

Federal Judge Rules Philly Injection Site Wouldn't Violate Drug Laws

A safe place meant to help prevent overdose deaths is not the same as a crackhouse.

Scott Shackford | 10.3.2019 11:35 AM

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Opioids

As Opioid Prescriptions Surged in Germany, Opioid Addiction Held Steady, While Opioid-Related Deaths Fell

The data reinforce the point that there is no straightforward relationship between pain pill consumption and overdoses.

Jacob Sullum | 8.2.2019 8:20 AM

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Fentanyl

Another Way Fentanyl Phobia Can Be Deadly: It Undermines Good Samaritan Laws

Irrational fear of incidental contact with opioids can lead to criminal charges that make overdose bystanders less likely to call 911.

Jacob Sullum | 7.24.2019 11:45 AM

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Opioids

These People Are Risking Prison To Help Philadelphia's Drug Users

"All we want to do is save some young people from dying needlessly," says former Gov. Ed Rendell, who's on the board of Safehouse, the nation's first supervised injection site to operate out in the open.

Mark McDaniel | 6.13.2019 9:00 AM

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Opioids

U.S. Attorney for Seattle Threatens To Block Supervised Injection Facility

Nearly two decades of data from Canada show that such facilities reduce overdose deaths.

Mike Riggs | 4.5.2019 4:45 PM

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Vaping

New Study Finds Almost Half of Juul Starter Kit Buyers Quit Within 3 Months

Those who continued to smoke cut their cigarette consumption in half.

Jacob Sullum | 3.4.2019 1:15 PM

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Tobacco

Did Twitter Punish Criticism of Government Propaganda About Smokeless Tobacco?

After a harm reduction advocate slammed a hardy but misleading factoid, users who retweeted his message complained that they had been shadowbanned.

Jacob Sullum | 2.22.2019 2:15 PM

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E-cigarettes

Surgeon General Undermines Harm Reduction by Pushing Anti-Vaping Policies and Propaganda

In the name of fighting "the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use," Jerome Adams wants to raise prices and ban indoor vaping.

Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2018 2:10 PM

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Harm Reduction

Candidates Oppose Safe Injection Sites to Get an Edge Over the Other

A GOP candidate claims she's the only person in the race who opposes a life-saving opioid policy, but her Democratic opponent is against it as well.

Zuri Davis | 10.25.2018 5:05 PM

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Opioids

Supervised Injection Facilities Save Lives

The Justice Department's opposition to such harm-reducing programs is irrational, unscientific, and inhumane.

Jacob Sullum | 9.5.2018 12:01 AM

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Opioids

DOJ Promises 'Aggressive' Response to Lifesaving Supervised Injection Facilities

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein condemns "havens" for drug users, notwithstanding their proven benefits.

Jacob Sullum | 8.28.2018 3:45 PM

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Opioids

New York's Mayor Backs Supervised Injection Facilities to Reduce Opioid Deaths

Bill de Blasio's plan includes four privately funded and operated "overdose prevention centers" in three boroughs.

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2018 12:45 PM

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Opioids

The Office of National Drug Control Policy Is on the Chopping Block Again. Here's Why That's Not a Bad Thing.

People who want to keep the drug czar's office running can't come up with a good reason why.

Mike Riggs | 1.19.2018 5:00 PM

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Opioids

To Help Opioid Users, Pennsylvania Tries Deregulating

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has announced a slew of regulatory waivers that could expand access to life-saving treatment.

Mike Riggs | 1.12.2018 11:45 AM

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HIV

In Wake of New HIV Cases, Northern Kentucky Public Health Officials Call for More Clean Needle Exchanges

Harm reduction advocates urge Kentucky counties to act before an epidemic occurs.

Mike Riggs | 1.9.2018 4:00 PM

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