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Does the Lead-Contaminated Water in Flint Pose a Danger to People Who Shoot Up?
In January, President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Flint, Michigan over the city’s water supply, which had been contaminated with lead after the water source was switched from Lake...
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Four Things You Need to Know About Molly
Thanks to a string of name-checks by pop stars like Miley Cyrus, Madonna and Kanye West, as well as several tragic deaths at music festivals, ”molly”—aka MDMA—has rarely been far from the headlines in...
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Neuroscientist: Meth Is Virtually Identical to Adderall—This Is How I Found Out
The long subway ride from DC’s airport to Silver Spring was unusually pleasant. It had been about an hour since I had taken a low dose of methamphetamine. It was my 40th birthday—October 30, 2006—and I...
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Eight Fascinating Ways People of the Past Have Used Marijuana to Enhance Sex
Much ink has been spilled on the diverse uses of cannabis down the years, including its medicinal properties, pain management, the treatment of epilepsy, and so on. But what has pot done for your sex...
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Watch: Why I Filmed This Young Woman Doing Huge Amounts of Whippets
In one way or another, I’ve been involved in harm reduction since I was a kid growing up in New York City. At age 20, I attempted to help my friends prevent overdose and disease by writing factually...
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Hilarious Kentucky Bill Requires Men to Get Wives’ Permission to Obtain Viagra
Kentucky state Rep. Mary Lou Marzian is proposing a bill that would require men to get a note from their wives before purchasing Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs. In keeping with the state’s...
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How Obama and Botticelli’s Drug Policies Contradict Their Own Life Experiences
In his memoir Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama described his youthful drug use. He discussed smoking “reefer” at Occidental College and, before that, he “indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes...
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Cop Overdoses on Heroin, Is Revived With Naloxone
An off-duty police officer overdosed on heroin in at a friend’s house in South Buffalo, New York last week, and was revived by “at least two doses” of naloxone when on-duty cops arrived at the scene,...
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Watch: Five Videos of Everyone’s Favorite Stoners to Get You Pumped for...
Have plans this evening? Cancel them. Everybody’s favorite stoners, Broad City‘s Abbi and Ilana, are back tonight with Season Three of their Comedy Central hit series. Below, watch the quick video they...
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Henbane to Belladonna: 10 Fascinating Ways Our Ancestors Got High
Mankind has been getting high for so long, it doesn’t even make sense to ask when homo sapiens “discovered” mind-altering substances. They’ve just always sort of been there, asking to be drunk, eaten,...
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“Streets Covered in Zombies”—What’s Behind New York’s K2 Drug Panic?
“You smoke a blunt, get high and still have money left over,” says 28-year-old José Martinez, a homeless man in Harlem, of the perks of K2. “Shit’ll last you three or four days if you get a real strong...
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Parents’ Prevention Strategies
It’s hard enough being a parent today without the upward battle of preventing future substance abuse in your children. While no prevention strategy is foolproof, below are six guidelines parents can...
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Stop Claiming Alcohol is Good for You
People have looked for miracle remedies to life’s maladies for centuries. Before the FDA, snake oil salesmen roamed the U.S. offering tonics that were guaranteed to cure what ails you. Although we’ve...
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Lawsuits piling up for OxyContin manufacturer, Purdue Pharma
So far in the opioid epidemic, as with the rest of the drug war, law enforcement has been quick to hand out punishments to average dealers and users, disproportionately affecting people of color. But...
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Reports prove misleading on teen overdose deaths
More teens are dying from drug-related overdoses. Opioids are to blame, and the statistics prove it. But that’s not the whole story. On August 16th, the Centers for Disease Control released a report...
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Study examines opiate makers’ payments to physicians
One in 12 U.S. doctors accepted payments from opioid manufacturers from 2013 to 2015, a team of researchers has found, in a study reported in the September issue of the American Journal of Public...
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Could reducing pills per prescription ease opioid crisis?
As prescriptions for opioid painkillers increased dramatically over the last two decades, so too did the opioid epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. doctors wrote 259 million...
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“Extra” pain pills fuel opiate epidemic, researchers find
As an epidemic of opiate addiction has spread across America, public health officials have cited improper disposal of prescription pain pills as a major contributing factor. A new review conducted by...
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Problem Drinking Growing Among Seniors
Older Americans represent the fastest-growing group of problem drinkers, according to a new study from researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The study,...
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New drug test, same old problems
Researchers say they have a new way to test if a person has been using cocaine. But what may be a step forward for science could also be a cause for concern. The study, published in the journal...
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