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A chair is seen in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 2020. - Patients sit in the sensory controlled environment while on their ketamine trip. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ketamine's risks are under scrutiny

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Tests strips, used to detect the presence of fentanyl and xylazine in different kinds of drugs, such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, lay next to a bag of heroin at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on May 25, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdose deaths continue to decline: CDC

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Abstract blue pills flying from smartphone. (Alena Butusava / Getty Images)

Inside Russia's dark web drug markets

Niko Vorobyov
Woman lighting a marijuana joint (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

Is cannabis harmful in pregnancy?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Hemp leaf on an American flag (Getty Images/Dmitriy83)

5 states to vote for weed & psychedelics

Elizabeth Hlavinka
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a roundtable conversation about marijuana reform and criminal justice reform, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. (KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris pledges to legalize marijuana

Elizabeth Hlavinka
ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 05: A podium with the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on October 5, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the United States was staying with family members at The Ivy Apartment complex before being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. State and local officials are working with federal officials to monitor other individuals that had contact with the confirmed patient. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

CDC warns of online pharmacy dangers

Nicole Karlis
A staff member packs overdose prevention kits, including Narcan nasal spray used to treat narcotic overdoses in an emergency situation, at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on April 24, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdoses decline but not for everyone

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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LEWISVILLE, NC - March 11: Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone her daughter Toria filled the day before she died at her home in Lewisville, NC, Monday, March 11, 2019. Stevens lost her 22-year-old daughter Toria to an opioid overdose last year after years of her daughter struggling with addiction following a violent sexual assault. (Photo by Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We must remove drug treatment barriers

Jennifer Carroll
General view of a weed / marijuana shop - 7th Heaven on Koh Chang Island in Trat province. Koh Chang is a popular tourist resort island situated about 350 km south east of the capital, Bangkok, Thailand. (Paul Lakatos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why Thailand's weed battles matter

Niko Vorobyov
Drug users prepare cocaine before injecting, inside of a Safe Consumption van set up by Peter Krykant on September 25, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The drugs were never the point

Niko Vorobyov
A woman demonstrates what a patient would experience in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 2020. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Do psychedelics require a therapist?

Rich Haridy
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Joe Biden | Marijuana (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's half-step on weed isn't enough

Maritza Perez Medina, Kassandra Frederique
Manager of overdose prevention secures covers on returned full sharps containers at the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center operated by the SF AIDS Foundation in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Overdose crisis takes toll on responders

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Carrie Hankins, of Jefferson County Public Health, holds a Fentanyl test strip during an event held at Lakewood Library on August 25, 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers buy into fentanyl touch myth

Claire Zagorski, Ryan Marino
U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why banning this drug could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility, part of the new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility December 5, 2008 at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s time to admit the drug war is over

Troy Farah
Doctor explains something to his patient whilst writing a prescription (Getty Images/sturti)

The miracle molecule no one can get

Aaron Ferguson
Paramedics carrying patient in ambulance at night (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

How Oregon's drug policy impact overdose

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Rushing ambulance at night, US (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Study maps overdose crisis' fourth wave

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Close-up of senior woman using cannabis at home (Getty Images/Emilija Manevska)

It's time to deschedule marijuana

Ricardo Baca
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Homeless people gather on Willow Street in the Tenderloin on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Housing, not drugs, is driving poverty

Morgan Godvin - Truthout
CAPITOL BUILDING, ALBANY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/01/31: Participants seen holding signs at the event. VOCAL-NY gathered at The War Room in the New York State Capitol with allies, including members of Drug Policy Alliance, OnPoint NYC, P.A.I.N Sackler, Housing Works and staff from the nations first Overdose Prevention Centers, for a press conference to push back against Governor Hochuls proposed plans to increase criminalization to address the overdose crisis, and demand lawmakers implement harm reduction strategies that -in their opinion- will actually save lives. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Getty Images )

Criminalization makes the drug war worse

Jennifer Carroll
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