…it may be time to time to reconsider our current classification of controlled substances. Clearly we must continue to be vigilant about whether drugs pose physical harm to patients. But we could assess drugs using additional measurements, including the potential for dependence; social costs through damaged family and social life; and financial costs through health…
Civil forfeiture allows the government to deprive citizens of their property even when it doesn’t even try to prove that the citizen committed a crime. In 2014 the government took more money from citizens than burglars stole from crime victims. It’s a gigantic law-enforcement scam … and it’s a constitutional atrocity. It’s a constitutional atrocity……
She maintains that Jawara sees it as his duty to share his father’s message of equal rights and justice for all. It’s also quite clear that Niambe is carrying on Peter Tosh’s legacy. Legendary singer Peter Tosh was murdered 30 years ago, and now his son is in critical condition after allegedly being attacked while…
“It’s just so scary… Jeff Sessions and the drug war, and that we would go backwards after all this work and money,” says Ann Mithoefer, co-therapist on the ongoing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and PTSD studies funded by MAPS, alongside her husband Michael. Though the FDA is more friendly to psychedelics than ever before, getting the approval…
Scientists, public health experts and volunteers working with them have started to show up at music festivals, concerts, raves and other public gatherings where illicit drugs are frequently used. For the first time in Britain, the more than 200,000 attendees at last year’s outdoor music festival Kendal Calling had access to a tent where their…
[I] am passionate about harm reduction We need safer injecting, more funding into harm reduction, more funding into treatment centers. Not everybody that tries it will become dependent, but those who do – they need help. The government’s ways of tackling addiction do not work. If someone came up to me and asked for a…
West Yorkshire Police assistant chief constable Andy Battle, who leads the policing operation at Leeds, said they were “looking at the possibility of supporting the festival’s organisers”. “We can never condone the use of illegal drugs, but we recognise that some people will continue to take them and we need to adapt our approach in…
“When I brought up the idea to my postdoctoral mentor, he nearly laughed me out of the office and said I’d have to do it on my own own,” says Peter Hendricks, assistant professor of health behavior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. [He writes], “When you control for all…
Change occurs only where there has been “intensive, robust and professional grassroots activism”… Drug harm reduction represents the final safety net for many of the most socially excluded populations on Earth … But harm reduction in the drug world is not only about saving lives on the frontline; it’s also about developing policy to prevent…
*woman, 32 years old; alcoholic paralysis…the fingers are in the interosseous position & there is marked degeneration and atrophy of the extensors of the fingers, with the exception of the wrist and thumb. Twenty patients, recruited through the recreational drug and alcohol services in Bristol, will be given the drug in capsule form during two…
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