The New Hampshire Senate has defeated a House-passed bill to legalize marijuana—the latest blow for advocates in a years-long fight ...

Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn cameras for ...

In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike Act. Though the name—a riff of ...

Violence erupted across Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the February 22 killing of the drug lord known as “El ...

The speeches at the press conference in Harlem were a distillation of stigmatizing ideas about methadone, clinics and ...

A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described as the “next killer drug” taking over at an “exponential rate” while standard naloxone has “proven ...

A looming ban on harm reduction services in public parks in Phoenix has just been delayed for a further two months. It’s opposed by providers and human rights groups, who fear for the city’s many ...

Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws to “keep the kids safe” by ...

Wisconsin lawmakers need to do more to reduce a smoking rate that causes almost 8,000 annual deaths, says the American ...

Illinois is considering a wide-ranging harm reduction bill that advocates believe may have traction with legislators. If ...