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You Can't Blame Homelessness on Addiction

A dark pattern is playing out in cities across America.A new story about Phoenix helps us understand what's going on.Open in app or onlineYou Can't Blame Homelessness on Addiction A dark pattern is playing out in cities across America.A new story about Phoenix helps us understand what's going on.Zac

3 days ago

Recall SF DA Brooke Jenkins!

On Friday, a CNN correspondent in San Francisco reporting on street crime had her car broken into.She had her computer and passport stolen.In writing up the case, the New York Post notes that The progressive city has been experiencing surging crime, open-air drug dealing and robberies over the last

5 days ago

Kids are going to do drugs. Let's keep them alive anyway.

It's time to stop fucking around with non-solutions like arresting more people.Open in app or onlineKids are going to do drugs.Let's keep them alive anyway.It's time to stop fucking around with non-solutions like arresting more people.Tana GanevaMar 17PreviewSaveTexas teenager Sienna Vaughn thought

6 days ago

The NYPD operates with even more impunity than before.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the watchdog devoted to investigating NYPD misconduct, is budgeted at $24.Heres how their oversight goes: a citizen lodges a complaint.Investigators determine whether the complaint is substantiated or unsubstantiated.Unsubstantiated just means that the wit

1 week ago

The magical thinking of police reform.

In the tiresome debate over whether we should defund or reform the police, the pro-reform people emerge as the rational ones.Defund is presented as anarchy leading to inevitable societal collapse.Its also cast as a hopelessly nebulous idea with no concrete definition applicable to the real world.Ope

1 week ago

In Rehab, a Nurse Denied Me Buprenorphine

A little vignette from my 2012 rehab stint in Minnesota.Musings on Maia Szalavitz's new NYT on AA and "the strange marriage of faith and medicine in addiction care." Open in app or onlineIn Rehab, a Nurse Denied Me Buprenorphine A little vignette from my 2012 rehab stint in Minnesota.Musings on Maia

1 week ago

The War on Drugs Meets The War on Terror

America's go-to solution: Call 'em terrorists and blow 'em up.And I review CNN's Town Hall on fentanyl as a tangled knot of untenable contradictions.Open in app or onlineThe War on Drugs Meets The War on TerrorAmerica's go-to solution: Call 'em terrorists and blow 'em up.And I review CNN's Town Hall

2 weeks ago

Some thoughts on "That's Just the Way It Is"

That's just the waaaaaaay it is.Open in app or onlineSome thoughts on "That's Just the Way It Is" That's just the waaaaaaay it is.Tana GanevaMar 7PreviewSaveOver at the Column, writer Adam Johnson makes a good point about an obnoxious breed of political pundits: the Not Surprised Guy and his close c

2 weeks ago

Activist Tracey Helton Reflects on 25 Years Sober

Starring in the 1999 HBO documentary "Black Tar Heroin," Tracey Helton's addiction and recovery has been very public and very online.Here is where Tracey's at now.Open in app or onlineActivist Tracey Helton Reflects on 25 Years SoberStarring in the 1999 HBO documentary "Black Tar Heroin," Tracey Hel

3 weeks ago

The right-wingers in the bluest cities.

Right there, in the second word of the headline, we learn that venture capitalist Michael Moritz is a Democrat.The lede affirms his political leanings with a jab at Tucker Carlson.Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up With San Francisco Few subjects please Tucker Carlson more than sticking a shiv into t

3 weeks ago

Why are we happy that more teens don't drink or have sex?

As the New York Times reports in a hardhitting investigation about bodega weed, the progress teenagers have achieved in the past decade is in jeopardy (because of the pandemic and also, bodega weed).Before the pandemic upended the lives of American teenagers with such catastrophic results, they were

3 weeks ago

A Typology of Harm Reduction Critics

You know them when you see them.This is a detailed classification of the types who argue against harm reduction.Open in app or onlineA Typology of Harm Reduction Critics Guy in suit.You know them when you see them.This is a detailed classification of the types who argue against harm reduction.Zachar

3 weeks ago

Why People Use Xylazine

Xylazine is taking over certain drug markets.Still, there's a reason people are seeking it out while others want to avoid it at all costs.Open in app or onlineWhy People Use Xylazine Xylazine is taking over certain drug markets.Still, there's a reason people are seeking it out while others want to a

1 month ago

Percocet Pigeons: The Alarming Rise of Animal Drug Addiction.

They came for your children with rainbow fentanyl.Dazzle the dog is strung out on marijuana cigarettes.And now, drugs are impacting America's wildlife.Open in app or onlinePercocet Pigeons: The Alarming Rise of Animal Drug Addiction.They came for your children with rainbow fentanyl.Dazzle the dog is

1 month ago

We can let most women out of prison with no threat to public safety.

Now here's a story by Glenn Thrush about sexual assault.Open in app or onlineWe can let most women out of prison with no threat to public safety.Now here's a story by Glenn Thrush about sexual assault.Tana GanevaFeb 22PreviewSaveWhat do most mass shooters, terrorists, violent cops, rapists, domestic

1 month ago