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Heroin
November 24, 2021
Zachary Siegel
Give People Safe Drugs
Over 100,000 overdose deaths happened last year, driven by volatile and lethal fentanyl. The safe supply movement may have an answer for the crisis.
September 28, 2020
Magazine
Alexander Clapp
The Vampire Ship
How the seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East
July 29, 2020
Zachary Siegel
The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis
“Any gains we made in funding for health departments, syringe exchanges, naloxone distribution—it’s all at risk.”
March 15, 2017
Naomi LaChance
Jeff Sessions says marijuana is “only slightly less awful” than heroin.
April 21, 2016
Jeet Heer
Maine Governor Paul LePage would prefer that heroin addicts die sooner rather than later.
February 9, 2016
Steven Cohen
Paul LePage wants to clarify that, yes, by “D-Money” and “Smoothie” he meant black people.
February 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ted Cruz is trying to show his human side.
February 2, 2016
Steven Cohen
The war on drugs keeps getting softer.
November 19, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Media Needs to Stop Stigmatizing Our Best Weapon Against Heroin Addiction
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