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    The for drug offences targets the most vulnerable. Globally, 1/10 people sentenced to death for drugs is a foreign national. Members of ethnic minority groups with drug convictions are also disproportionately sentenced to death, as are women

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    Powerful piece on the horrors of methadone regulation by . I spent part of my night last night trying to convince a friend to stay on methadone, but she won't, because it's punitive and awful.

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    “We already know that our dope has fetty in it,” syringe service program participants told SC harm reductionist Marc Burrows. "Opioid-naive people ... might be the ones who could actually use fentanyl test strips," he writes:

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    New York Protest Tells Politicians to Stop Targeting Harm Reduction   via

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    "The social equity program is not fully operational yet, and there’s no clear timeline. That’s a significant shortcoming." for

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    At least 131 people were executed for drug convictions in 2021, but state secrecy means this is likely just a fraction of the total, outlines a new report. Globally, over 3,000 people are on death row for drug convictions. By :

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    New Mexico's rapid rollout won't let municipal governments block dispensaries and has provisions favoring small businesses, reports . But the social equity program has yet to open, and tax revenues are not ring-fenced:

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    Have you read ⁦⁩ on her kratom use yet? So good: “Without something, however mild, to tickle my opioid receptors, I am a hulking mass of raw nerves, existential dread and anxiety.”

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    Employee drug-testing has fallen overall, and tends to happen least in marijuana-legal states, writes . Some industries still do it far more than others:

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    New Mexico's rapid rollout won't let municipal governments block dispensaries and has provisions favoring small businesses, reports . But the social equity program has yet to open, and tax revenues are not ring-fenced:

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  12. Mar 13

    About halfway through this year I found a new source, the best guy I have ever dealt with. What’s more, he had practically sold everything—and he had the purest red fentanyl I ever tried. It was the best dope I have experienced. By :

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  13. Mar 13

    Last summer, the House of Representatives passed a bill proposing $69.5 million in harm reduction grants. A few months later, the Senate countered with $30 million. They've now reached a compromise: $18 million. By :

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  14. Mar 12

    Opponents of the disease model certainly don’t deny that many people become addicted to opioids and other drugs, as well as to powerful non-drug behaviors and experiences. Addiction is fundamental to human experience. By :

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    Rather than accept the limits of BC's prescriber safe supply guidelines, wrote its own. The new guidance document reduces barriers associated with medical models, but also adds something that's been missing: choice. By :

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    Two days of presentations largely avoided asking the DEA and SAMHSA to answer for a racist, stigmatizing and cruel system that contributed to over 100,000 last year by pushing people back to the adulterated street supply of opioids. By :

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    I appreciate all the things that enabled my survival for the last 2 years, which were shockingly hard on me. My latest in .

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    I haven’t mentioned my kratom use to many people. Decades of drug-war rhetoric baked irrational fears into the American psyche; if isn’t alcohol or caffeine, it is insidious. But anyone who has taken kratom realizes how bogus this is. By :

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    "For comparison, Congress gave the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) about $2 billion in fiscal year 2021. Of other federal agencies heavily involved in the drug war, it gave about $13 billion to Customs and Border Protection, [and] 8 billion to [ICE]."

    "If approved, it will drastically reduce money that lawmakers proposed last year for the CDC to help prevent HIV/AIDS and overdose, as the United States endures the worst overdose crisis in its history." By :
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    "While New York’s new mayor, Eric Adams, has publicly supported the sites, noted that “law and order” politicians may stir up fear about them, and that it’s a “very precarious” situation."

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