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40 Years Later: Drug Policy in New York After the Rockefeller Drug Laws

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 05.08.2013 | New York
Gabriel Sayegh

The very term Rockefeller Drug Laws has practically become a euphemism for unfair, racially biased mandatory prison sentences and drug-war related mass incarceration.

What We Can Learn From Celebrity Overdoses

Tessie Castillo | Posted 04.03.2013 | Celebrity
Tessie Castillo

While tragic, celebrity overdose might help raise awareness about the dangers of prescription misuse and ignite the push for drug policy reform.

The Role the Media Can Play in Reducing the Overdose Crisis

Meghan Ralston | Posted 04.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Meghan Ralston

Solutions like expanded access to naloxone and the 911 Good Samaritan law work and can save lives -- but only if people know about them.

Gov. Cuomo Calls for Reform: Marijuana Arrests That 'Stigmatize and Criminalize... Must End Now'

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 03.11.2013 | New York
Gabriel Sayegh

Possession of marijuana is the leading arrest in New York City today -- but it's not supposed to be this way. In 1977, New York State removed criminal penalties for private possession of marijuana, and made possession in public view a misdemeanor.

Death By Prescription: The Danger of Overprescribing Opioids

HuffPost Live | Posted 11.20.2012 | Home

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 15,000 Americans die annually from overdosing on prescription painkillers, know...

Saving Lives By Calling for Help: Overdose and Bon Jovi's Daughter

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 01.14.2013 | New York
Gabriel Sayegh

Saving lives should always take priority over punishing behavior. Today, Jon Bon Jovi's daughter Stephanie is alive because someone called for help. Let's make sure others know that they can and should do the same.

The Power to Solve the Drug Overdose Crisis Is in Our Hands

Kathie Kane-Willis | Posted 12.15.2012 | Chicago
Kathie Kane-Willis

We need to make sure that we are educating our young people, our parents, our doctors, and our health care workers about heroin and opioids. We need to involve more allies in overdose prevention.

Every Drug Overdose Is Preventable

R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 10.27.2012 | Politics
R. Gil Kerlikowske

This year the Obama Administration allocated more money for drug prevention and treatment programs -- $10.1 billion -- than for U.S. law enforcement and incarceration. This Administration understands substance dependence is a public health issue, not just a law enforcement issue.

Who Will Win Kinkade's Millions?

AP | Posted 06.13.2012 | Arts

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thomas Kinkade's widow and girlfriend took their dispute over the late painter's estate to court on Tuesday as handwritten notes a...

People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.11.2012 | Healthy Living
Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D.

We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

Keeping Alcohol in the Spotlight: 6 Facts

Deni Carise | Posted 05.02.2012 | Healthy Living
Deni Carise

Cocaine, heroin and now prescription drugs continue to occupy the headlines -- as indeed they should -- but alcohol deserves the same attention. Our nation's alcohol problem may not seem as scandalous, but it's just as serious.

Xanax Facts and Whitney Houston

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 02.22.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Peter Breggin

Reports that Xanax and other benzos are not usually lethal when taken alone are vastly misleading. Xanax is rarely taken alone. Why? Because as much or more than any other prescribed drug, Xanax causes medication spellbinding.

Police Find Body Outside Miami-Dade County Auditorium

Posted 03.12.2012 | Miami

Miami police report that they have found a body outside the northwest corner of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium at 2901 W. Flagler Street. Officer Mo...

Gov. Cuomo Signs Law to Help Reduce Overdose Deaths

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 09.23.2011 | New York
Gabriel Sayegh

A national crisis has emerged as the number of overdose deaths from both legal and illegal drugs has skyrocketed. Now New York is taking action to stem the crisis.

Program Supervising Illegal Drug Use Successfully Cut Overdose Rates

Posted 06.18.2011 | Home

North America's only sanctioned facility for injection of illegal drugs has cut overdose deaths and should be used as a model in other cities, accor...

Nicole John: Blog of Depressed, Partying, Now-Dead Teen Reads Like My Own Teen Diary

The Stir | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
The Stir

Strip away the Xanax, the posh Manhattan nightlife, and the international lifestyle and the blog entries from hard-partying 17-year-old Nicole John co...

Smart Solutions to Overdose Can Save Lives

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Gabriel Sayegh

New York lawmakers are now considering two very different approaches to address accidental overdose fatalities: One bill will most certainly make the problem worse, while the other will likely save lives.

Obama's New Rules For PTSD: How Much Trauma Is Enough?

Cilla McCain | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Cilla McCain

Will PFC Bailey have to carry around the emotional scars of her service to our nation (not to mention sexual assault) without any help from the people who sent her there?

Six Ways to Improve Electric Daisy Carnival

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joshua Glazer

I wrote this post as I watched the hysteria surrounding Electric Daisy Carnival hit the media. With one death and over 100 hospitalized, obviously some changes need to be made.

Moms Unite to End the War on Drugs

Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gretchen Burns Bergman

Now is the time to demand an end to the pointless and punitive criminalization of people who use drugs.

In His New Book, Anna Nicole Smith Judge Urges New Police Probe

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

MIAMI — The flamboyant judge brought to fame in the fight over Anna Nicole Smith's remains says he believes someone is guilty of manslaughter in...

Sebastian Horsley Dead: Eccentric UK Author Dies At 47 Of Suspected Overdose

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

LONDON — Self-styled dandy and noted British eccentric Sebastian Horsley, who found fame by having himself nailed to a cross in the Philippines,...

Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 2)

Allan Clear | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Allan Clear

Yesterday I wrote about an editorial that was rejected by an academic journal in fall 2009 that outlined the history of harm reduction in the United ...

Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 1)

Allan Clear | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Allan Clear

In the fall of 2009, I was asked by an academic journal to contribute a 1,500 word editorial that outlined the history of harm reduction in the United...

AP Thinks Heroin's Got a Brand New Bag, Misses Story

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Maia Szalavitz

This kind of shallow reporting is why the media loses credibility -- a simple Google search or call to an academic expert on drugs or even a conversation with a long-time addict would reveal that $10 bags are not news.