There is a saying in the prison building industry that goes along the lines of: ‘If you build them, they will fill them’. […]

When crack hit America in the mid-1980s, for African-Americans, to borrow from Ta-Nehisi Coates, civilization fell. […]

Gloria Lai from the International Drug Policy Consortium briefly discusses policy reform in the run up to the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem. […]

Canadian federal health minister Jane Philpott says she is expecting more applications for establishing safe injection sites across the country. […]

What’s behind this newfound willingness of former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida to talk about the personal toll of addiction? […]

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán put it simply to Sean Penn: “The day I don’t exist,” drug trafficking is “not going to decrease in any way at all.” […]

While the benefits of incarceration can be difficult to identify, Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre produces larger financial savings than it costs to run. […]

An acclaimed Canadian HIV/Aids treatment centre has been given the green light to operate a supervised drug injection site by Canada’s federal government, becoming the second such approved site in North America. […]

A police chief in Massachusetts has made an emotional Facebook appeal to drug addicts. […]

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has given a heartfelt stamp of approval to the work of Vancouver’s Insite supervised-injection site. […]