Where is the Money Going For a Million Dollar Prison Fund?

Six killed after US strikes another boat off coast of Venezuela www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Laws on Overdose Deaths in the United States onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

"The university's decision to shut down WCSB silences more than a station — it quiets a piece of the city's soul." www.progressiveurban.com/pureblog/202...

Gift link. Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Two U.S. officials, who were not authorized to discuss the sensitive matter publicly, also said that Colombians were aboard at least one of the boats recently destroyed by the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

Recordings from the 2025 NDARC Research Symposium are now available www.unsw.edu.au/research/nda...

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Researchers concerned new U.S. dietary guidelines will overlook harms of alcohol www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

"In 2023, 557 teens died of opioid overdose, nearly threefold as many as in 2018, while adult opioid deaths only went up by 65% during this time, according to the study. Drug overdoses are now among the leading causes of death for US teenagers." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great project from @bakerinstitute.bsky.social tracking how the 21 largest local govts in Texas are spending their opioid settlement money. These localities have no reporting requirements, so researchers are filling a critical gap in public knowledge here. rice1.osn.mghpcc.org/crc-ssl/Opio...

New at Health Affairs: Improving Access To Substance Use Disorder Care In Nursing Facilities www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

*looks around at the world* It's been a week. If you value our work and believe incarcerated voices deserve to be heard, please consider donating. As a nonprofit, we can’t do this without your support.

Drug Policy Facts: Xylazine www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/xyla...

"Research from King's College London, shared exclusively with BBC News, found that there were 39,232 opioid-related deaths between 2011 and 2022, more than 50% higher than previously known." www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Even if moving large numbers of people off the street were feasible, states would need to find spots in facilities and pay for them. Right now, beds for people who want help are already limited."

"While stigma operates in multiple institutions, its role in medical care is especially pronounced, insidious and devastating." filtermag.org/stigma-medic...

"There is little research on whether treatment ordered through involuntary civil commitment is associated with sustained recovery from addiction. Some recent reports have been discouraging." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

Drug Policy Facts: Nitazenes www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/nita...

"Nitazenes are probably too dangerous to legalise. But the best way to reduce harm to drug users and revenues for criminal gangs is to allow addicts regulated access to better-understood opioids, including heroin." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

"If you give people drugs with predictable contents, they stop dying. So I spent all my time in non-profits and governments saying: ‘Someone should be giving people drugs with predictable contents,’ and then I thought, ‘Well, fuck it, I’ll just do that.'"

Felt that way for a long time. Throw out drug prohibition, grow, cultivate coca leaves and opium in US greenhouses. Wholesale to distributors, retail with similar regulations and prices as alcohol.

‘Who wouldn’t want pure cocaine?’: the radical plan to prevent overdoses with better drugs www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Overdose Prevention Centers, Safe Consumption Spaces, Supervised Injection Facilities - whatever you call them, these are vital services that save lives, help stop the spread of diseases, build community and rebuild trust. www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/supe... #DrugSky #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy

New at JAMA Network Open: Active Constituents of Psilocybin Mushroom Edibles jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Mexico's Marines In Hot Water A scandal is growing in Mexico's elite SEMAR which US agents work with to take down kingpins. In Manzanillo where SEMAR controls customs, a broker told me you could get a container with drugs through for 800,000 pesos. Read↓ www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-ma...

The Drug War Chronicle is a vitally important outlet for news on drug policy and the failed drug war. Phil Smith and Dave Borden do a lot of really great work. Please give them your support. stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/re... #DrugSky

Amidst the increasing punitive crackdowns on fentanyl there's been growing cases of new synthetics that won't show up on fent test strips and have many variants. It's grim.

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...

‘Crisis on top of crisis’: Scotland faces threat from dangerous form of opioids, experts warn Synthetic opioids known as nitazenes, linked to more than 100 deaths, can be hundreds of times stronger than other drugs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

New at Health Affairs: The Opioid Crisis: Scaling Up Treatment And Harm Reduction Programs To Reach More People Who Would Benefit www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

On this edition of Century of Lies: Broken No More kboo.fm/media/129114... #SupportPublicMedia #SupportCommunityRadio #SupportKBOO #IOAD2025

Alarming number of overdose deaths in Australia! Only 6 heroin overdose deaths in Australia 1964. Heroin became a serious problem in Australia AFTER it was prohibited in 1955. Decision criticised at the time by leaders of the Australian medical profession. @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social

For International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember the peers who went before us, the ones we lost, but will never forget 💜 AIVL will keep pushing for better access to naloxone, peer support and equitable drug policies and programs! 💜💊💉✊️☂️ See our #IOAD webinar: aivl.org.au/events/webin...

“They won’t prosecute, but they will though:” the continuing struggle between criminalization and harm reduction within the criminal justice system in the context of an opioid overdose crisis harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

New at the journal Psychological Medicine: The impact of childhood trauma and cannabis use on paranoia: a structural equation model approach www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Opposing the Imaginary National Emergency on Crime kboo.fm/media/128993...

"Some addiction experts fear that a retreat from harm reduction will reverse the falloff in deaths from injection-related diseases." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...

NEW MESSAGING RESEARCH: Support for public health #OverdosePrevention is strong—and it could be stronger. Our new playbook delivers original polling research, message testing, & strategies you need to solidify support for solutions we already know work www.bigcitieshealth.org/overdose-pre...

What a brave opinion piece. As someone who went to rehab last fall, and has issues with 12-step programs, mad respect to @maiasz.bsky.social both for writing it and having the courage to publish it.

I know people in recovery who smoke crack or shoot opiates. It’s not about abstinence for most people.

"To end the overdose crisis, we need more recovery options, not fewer. We need to acknowledge that there’s not one 'right' approach. Research shows that non-abstinent recovery is already far more common than conventional wisdom suggests." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

CDC’s Publications On Demand will close in September 2025. The last day for orders is August 15th, 2025. wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/

Examining the Multifaceted Impacts of Drug Decriminalization on Public Safety, Law Enforcement, and Prosecutorial Discretion pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ccj_fac/128/

Rising crime, overdoses reflect pre-pandemic trends – not drug decriminalization – PSU study finds Oregon crime rates and rising overdose deaths driven mostly by COVID-19 pandemic, fentanyl oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/11/r...

Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out. wapo.st/3HlJSaT

Mark your calendars for the 2025 Symposium on Substance Use Research! It will be held on November 5-6, via Zoom. This event is free and open to the public! 🔗 More info: events.unl.edu/RDAR/2025/11...