Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century ...
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There’s a renewed push to legalize overdose prevention centers on Beacon Hill, with advocates touting supervised drug use as harm prevention. That depends on how one defines harm. At these centers, ...
The administration, on the one hand, is moving in a direction of liberalizing access to cannabis, but at the same time, in ...
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The White House’s newly released strategy for tackling the nation’s drug and addiction crisis calls for a number of ambitious ...
The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,000 people in the US. That’s more than the number of Americans who died ...