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Why West Virginia’s Heroin Overdose Rate Doubled After It Mandated Doctors Use the State Drug-Monitoring Database
Could the program have driven some West Virginians to use heroin?
Bring Back Needle-Exchange Funding
The Indiana HIV outbreak highlights the need for science-based drug policy.
Harm Reduction Can Help to Heal Law Enforcement’s Rift With the Public
Police participation in harm-reduction measures that protect public health and serve communities is a growing good news story. It can also play a part in repairing a battered reputation.
The Drug Lord With a Social Mission
Matt Bowden (sometimes known as Starboy, an "interdimensional traveler") helped create one of the most viral outbreaks of new drugs in history. He might also have the antidote.
This Is What’s Breaking the Drug War
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to print and digital magazine subscribers.
What Happens When Penalties for Pot Smoking Are Reduced? Hardly Anything
At least, that has been the experience in Great Britain, according to a new analysis.
This Is (Finally) the Beginning of the End of the War on Drugs
With the advent of marijuana legalization, alternatives to incarceration, harm reduction as treatment, and other rational approaches to addiction, 2014 could be an unprecedented turning point.
Feds Poke Hole in Needle Exchange Funding
Despite evidence that needle exchange programs for drug users slow the spread of AIDS, the new U.S. government spending bill once again defunds such programs.
The Dutch Can Handle Their Pot
A researcher who compared the Netherlands' marijuana use with that of other European countries and the U.S. finds the Dutch regime of tolerated small sales of cannabis does not lead to a drug free-for-all.