Carl Hart: Drug Use for Grown-Ups
The Columbia neuroscientist talks frankly about using heroin responsibly and "chasing liberty in the land of fear."
The Columbia neuroscientist talks frankly about using heroin responsibly and "chasing liberty in the land of fear."
Blame angry neighbors, not the feds.
Federal judge confirms ruling that it doesn’t violate federal “crack house” law.
The Justice Department says Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were killed in an operation based on a fraudulent warrant triggered by a false report to police.
Illicit fentanyl and heroin accounted for the vast majority of opioid-related deaths, while only 1 percent of cases involved drugs for which people had prescriptions.
The discussion during last night's debate grossly exaggerated the role of prescription pain pills in opioid-related deaths.
A safe place meant to help prevent overdose deaths is not the same as a crackhouse.
Federal drug prohibition played a big role in creating the opioid crisis. Unfortunately, the government is also slowing the spread of one possible solution to it.
Although the warrant was based on a heroin purchase that never happened, Art Acevedo says, there was other, unmentioned evidence that would have justified a search.
Blaming opioid makers for the "opioid crisis" may be emotionally satisfying, but the reality is more complicated.
A new RAND report puts spending on marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine at $146 billion in 2016.
This is the nature of government. It can't stop the flow of illicit substances in a sealed and militarized building that's under its total control.
But Justice Department officials want to stop them.
Just last night the president said he wants to stop the spread of HIV. This move won't help.
Spoiler alert: It wasn't heroin.
Only if you are using heroin, fentanyl, or dangerous drug mixtures
The profit incentives created by prohibition doom any effort to block the drug "pipeline."
Former Gov. Ed Rendell says he's willing to defy the feds and risk arrest to reduce overdose deaths.
His argument: If San Francisco lets people shoot up, they won't be able to order them into drug treatment through the courts.
Deaths involving pain pills and heroin are falling, while deaths involving fentanyl and its analogs continue to rise.
Journalist Christopher Moraff talks about a better way to report on drug culture in America.
New data show the share of opioid-related fatalities involving fentanyl analogs is rising.
San Francisco was supposed to have sites up and running this month. It does not.
Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George will no longer prosecute misdemeanor buprenorphine cases.
When the cure for the "epidemic" proves worse than the disease, it's time to try something new.
The government's efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous.
They will be privately funded and operated by nonprofits.
The city's new district attorney also supports the idea.
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.
The panel wants to make prescription analgesics even harder to obtain.
More innovative remedies will be needed to actually turn back the relentless onslaught of overdose fatalities.
Moral judgment of drug users overrules solutions that fight overdoses and halt the spread of disease.
The former head of the CDC wants to drive up the price of heroin. Here's what we might see if that happens.
Preliminary data from the CDC suggest an unprecedented number of Americans died of a drug overdose last year.
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.
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.
The more drug warriors crack down on opioids, the more dangerous they become.
A Middletown, Ohio, lawmaker wants paramedics to stop treating to overdose patients after two strikes.
Yet the DEA wants to ban it.
Let doctors exercise their best professional judgment and prescribe opioids-free from the chilling effects created by monitoring government agencies.