Showing posts with label harm reduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harm reduction. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oregon is re-criminalizing drugs

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 The war on drugs is unforgiving, and neither criminalization nor decriminalization seems to be a winning strategy.  The NYT has the latest ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Guns and drugs on the U.S. Mexico border

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 Here are two stories about some of the illegal traffic on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. First, the war on drugs is fought with A...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Limitations of harm reduction: will Oregon recriminalize drug use?

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 The NYT has the story: To Revive Portland, Officials Seek to Recriminalize Public Drug Use . State and local leaders are proposing to roll ...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Drug addiction: not just opioids

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 Consumption of addictive drugs seems to come in deadly cocktails these days, which is making interdiction of drugs, and treatment of addict...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Immigration, immigration law, and illegal immigrants in legal limbo. Should we have a statute of limitations after which immigrants become legal?

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We're seeing so much illegal immigration, maybe we should change some of our laws, at least to regularize the status of immigrants who h...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Homelessness and fentanyl, in Oregon and California

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 Both the criminal justice system and the harm reduction movement seem to be facing an intractable problem with fentanyl and homelessness.  ...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Drug markets: the replacement of agriculture by chemistry

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Labs are replacing fields as the source of addictive drugs. Here are two stories, from National Affairs, and the Financial Times. The curren...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Harm reduction is not a panacea: drug use and drug policy in Portugal, and San Francisco

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 The Washington Post has a story about Portugal, and the SF Chronicle has one as well. Both stories touch on the tensions between treating d...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Drug Overdose Deaths Topped 100,000 Again in 2022

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  The WSJ has the story: the headline speaks for itself   Drug Overdose Deaths Topped 100,000 Again in 2022  https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Supervised drug use sites to be banned in Pennsylvania

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 Statnews has the story: Pennsylvania set to ban supervised drug use sites, in setback for harm reduction   By Lev Facher "Pennsylvania...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Harm reduction at work in NYC's opioid crisis

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 The NY Times follows some harm reduction workers through their work in New York City, including a city-sponsored safe injection facility.  ...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Incarceration isn't always the best treatment for drug addiction

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  Here's a NY Times editorial: America Has Lost the War on Drugs. Here’s What Needs to Happen Next.    Feb. 22, 2023 It begins with this...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Canada experiments with decriminalization of opioids and other drugs in British Columbia

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 From the CBC: What you need to know about the decriminalization of possessing illicit drugs in B.C.  B.C. granted exemption by federal gove...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Why is it so easy to get drugs, and so hard to get drug abuse treatment? Overdose deaths continue to climb.

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  Here's an update on drug abuse in the U.S., from the WSJ. One quote particularly struck me, from a mom whose child died: "it’s so...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Decriminalizing drugs at the head of the supply chain--Colombia

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 The criminalization of drugs has different consequences on different parts of the supply chain. Here's a harm reduction proposal from C...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Harm reductions (fentanyl test strips) remain illegal in Texas

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It's a long way from Texas to Vancouver . This recent story from the Texas Monthly caught my eye: Fentanyl Test Strips Could Save Lives—...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Fentanyl by prescription: a Vancouver experiment

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 Part of the problem of black markets, particularly for drugs (but not just for drugs) is that customers are dealing with criminals who are ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Drugs, drug regulation, and chemistry: the case of nicotine (following Rob Jackler)

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  My Stanford colleague Dr. Rob Jackler has a longstanding interest in nicotine as an addictive drug that continues to be  effectively marke...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Harm reduction for drugs: an experiment in British Columbia

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  Here's a news story in the Guardian, and the policy paper from British Columbia about the new efforts on harm reduction there. Canada ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Fentanyl test strips save lives. Why do Kansas and Missouri ban them?

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 You can imagine a world, with virtually no drug abuse, in which we would want to inhibit the recreational use of fentanyl and so might outl...