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For as long as I can remember, I have been punished for things I cannot control. It started in elementary school, when my parents gave...

Last month I stopped by my office to check my mail box, and I discovered an unsealed manila envelope containing 28 hand-written pages....

Prisons are torture. The idea of squeezing a few bucks out of already-laughable budgets is difficult for those who have been inside to...

Free will is not real. It's not even a good illusion. But it is such a handy shortcut to explaining the world that we use it to avoid all...

“what if the mass media are, in effect, teaching us to see the world in ways that will, ultimately, lead to disaster?” (Dixon, "Teaching...

We are not in the midst of an opioid epidemic; we are in the midst of a white opioid epidemic... It is true that between 1999 and 2021...

Crack cocaine is just cocaine in a smokable form. There is no real difference between what the two drugs do in the body. But there is a...

Many of us have loved ones who become entangled in conspiracy theories and wind up losing themselves in a web of incredible stories. And...

The United States is a culture built on performances: civility, gender, class, occupation, sexuality, and a million more scripts we...

My guest (S2 E3), Maia Szalavitz, is a rock star in the world of harm reduction. Her 2014 TIME article, "Cheap Crack Pipes, Free Heroin...

In 1993 Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain appeared on the cover of The Advocate, alongside the caption, "I am gay in Spirit." That was the...

79,000 people died from a drug overdose in the US between 5/2019 & 5/2020. We can end the opioid overdose crisis tomorrow by passing...

It was bad before the virus hit. We were losing almost 70,000 drug users ever year from overdose. That's someone every ten minutes. Plus...

When I decided to stop using heroin a decade ago, Medication and Meditation were both vital to my success. Methadone (medication)...

This annual magazine is devoted to sharing the voices of those locked behind bars. Please share our message, and our contact information...

Addiction is not a disease; it is a learning disorder. We learn to use drugs because they work great; that's how learning works. But we...

The concentration of power, wealth and privilege under Christian hegemony accumulates to the ruling class, predominantly white male...

“I need my Suboxone. I was booked with it, the prescription for it and the letter from my doctor. I am in full-blown withdrawal and need...

Division is a tool of the Master (Martinez & Gutierrez-Perez). We must all hang together, or surely we shall hang separately (Benjamin...