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The Harm Reduction Movement: Bigger Than Ever, But Facing Threats
If numbers gauge the health of a movement, this one is flourishing. Two thousand people crammed into a vast hotel ballroom in New Orleans on October 18 for the opening of the National Harm Reduction...
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A Mother Who Lost Two Sons to Fentanyl Fights Back
Imagine the worst thing that could happen to you. Now imagine it happening twice. That’s as close as I can get, as a parent, to describing what Carol Katz Beyer has been through. In 2016 and 2017, two...
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DPA’s Leader Shares Her Roots, Health Challenge and All-Drug Decrim Agenda
A formidable background in human rights advocacy and scholarship certainly qualifies Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno for her role as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, America’s and...
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Huge Harm Reduction Gathering Allows Portugal to Teach the World
To walk down the hill to the Douro River in Porto on a sunny day is to navigate a delightful maze of cobbled streets, bright-patterned houses, stone-walled parks and precipitous steps. Knowing that...
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How the World’s Oldest Drug Checking Service Makes High-Risk Pills “Unsellable”
Don’t sit on your day job,” Daan van der Gouwe advised people who operate drug checking services. By which he meant, getting information out there greatly amplifies the public health benefit of what...
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Global Forum on Nicotine Asserts Urgency of Tobacco Harm Reduction
Where else,” wondered tobacco harm reduction advocate David Sweanor, “do we permit a really deadly product, but try to restrict access to safer ones?” Delegates at the Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) in...
View ArticleTrump Announces Disastrous Plan to Ban Flavored Vapes Across the US
President Donald Trump announced on September 11 that he wants the Food and Drug Administration to plan to pull flavored vaping products from the US market. Describing vaping as “a new problem in the...
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The Drug Policy Reform Movement Debates Its Next Moves
We have a saying in Pakistan,” smiled the taxi driver. We were discussing two-year-olds as we drove out of St. Louis, Missouri to the airport. “If they’re not breaking something or making noise, it’s...
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