Drug Journalism

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For Assorted Publications

How to Prevent—or Reverse—Opioid Overdoses | Xtra Magazine | November 2021

A Guide to Chemsex: What Is It, and How Can You Make It Safer? | Healthline | June 2021

The Beginner’s Guide to Harm Reduction | August 2021 | Healthline | August 2021

What You Need to Know About Meth
Withdrawal | Healthline | October 2021

What’s the Deal with Booty Bumping
(aka Boofing)? | Healthline | April 2021

What We Can Learn From Harm Reduction’s Defeats | The Nation | February 2022

Health Officials Warn Historic Addiction Treatment Funding Burdened by Federal Bureaucracy | The Intercept | July 2021

The Forgotten History of European Drug-Dealer Activism | Talking Drugs | April 2021

How Diverting Opioids Can Be Harm Reduction | Talking Drugs | November 2021

US Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under
Attack, Part 1 + Part 2 | Talking Drugs | July 2021

For Filter Magazine

Which Manhattan DA Candidates Stand Out on Drugs? | February 2021

How the First Black Surgeon General Was Silenced for Considering Drug Legalization | December 2020

Leaked FBI Report: Drug Sellers Practice Harm Reduction | December 2020

DEA Wants to Surveil Patients. Trans Men Stopped Them Once Before. | November 2020

Harm Reductionist on Hunger Strike Against Alleged Civil Commitment Rights Violations | January 2020

The Consequences of an Incompetent First Step Act Rollout | October 2019

Black New Yorkers Hospitalized for Amphetamines at Alarming Rates | August 2019

NY Harm Reductionists Face Pandemic Shortage of Syringes and Other Supplies | October 2020

A Conversation with Michael Johnson, Criminalized by Missouri’s HIV Law | July 2019

Booty-Bumping Meth: Harm Reduction for an Under-Discussed Practice | December 2019

The Drug War’s “Science-Based” Training on “Dopers and Parasites” | July 2020

BlueLeaks: Inside Cops’ Islamophobic Counterdrug Training | July 2020

“I Can’t Breathe”⁠—The Haunting Urgency of Juice WRLD’s Post-OD Album | July 2020

Intubated Patients Need Fentanyl. The DEA Had Recently Cut Production. | April 2020

The End of NYC’s HIV Epidemic Is In Sight—Except for Trans Women | December 2019

Increasing Asian-Pacific Islander Overdose Deaths Were Ignored by NYC Report | September 2019

How Harm Reduction Is Serving⁠—and Failing⁠—Asian Americans | August 2019

How Fear, Misinformation, Stigma Have Devastated US Pain Patients | April 2021

Naloxone Now Used as Evidence to Prosecute Indiana OD Victims | February 2020

An Indiana Police Dept. No Longer Reversing Overdoses During Pandemic | April 2020

DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance | November 2020

Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead | June 2019

The “Date-Rape Drug” Narrative Has Been Weaponized Against GHB Users | September 2020

There’s an HIV Cluster Upstate, as Cuomo Starves Harm Reduction Orgs | October 2020

Exclusive: What Happened to the Funding for LA’s Cannabis Social Equity Program? | March 2019

Banning GHB at Raves Is Dangerous | February 2020

NYC Jail Deprived Trans Women of MAT for Years | June 2019

Slovenia’s Sole Grassroots Syringe Exchange Violently Evicted, Bulldozed | February 2021

Why Drug Dealers Are an Under-Utilized Anti-Overdose Resource | May 2019

Inside the Rising Chemsex Response in Europe | November 2019

The Harm Reductionist Imprisoned by Ukraine Separatists for Carrying Bupe | June 2019

Canada Quietly Lifts Ban on Peer Injection Assistance at Safe Consumption Sites | May 2020

Locked in a Crowded TV Room: Pandemic Revelations From a Federal Prison | May 2020

Nurse Who Gave Her Meds to MAT-Deprived Patients Convicted | July 2019

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