The sad truth is that many of deaths could have been prevented with better access to drug testing to prevent ingestion of adulterated or unknown substances, better legislation surrounding harm reduction, and better discussion about drug use. […]

To tackle HIV rates we must give a voice to people prevented from accessing treatment due to social stigma. […]

Could Canada be to cannabis what France is to wine? […]

The rising opioid death rate is alarming, but it’s time they didn’t take sole blame for fatalities. […]

Pleasure is not a poison, and what we need to worry about is addiction, organ damage, disease, behavioral dis-inhibition, impaired driving, and other genuine dangers. Politicians can turn their attention to ending excess joy after they solve actual problems, like inequality, poverty, and pain. […]

Our only alternative to the nightmare of Donald Trump’s drug policy is depressingly mediocre. So, drug policy reformers, here’s the bad news—no matter who gets elected, we’re headed backwards the next four-to-eight years! […]

The chief executive officer of the New South Wales Users & AIDS Association, Dr Mary Harrod, pointed to the need for a much wider roll-out of naloxone, the drug used to treat overdoses. […]

There’s one element of harm reduction that some say works better than all others, but it is also nearly impossible to implement in an official capacity: drug testing kits. […]

As the once-vilified drug becomes more accepted, researchers around the world are trying to understand how it works and how it might fight disease. […]