New York Becomes First U.S. City to Open Supervised Injection Sites for Drug Users
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Facilities will provide clean needles, medicine to reverse overdoses, and information on addiction treatment services
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A DEA Raid Meant to Clean Up a New Mexico Town. Instead, It Made Everything Worse
Posted in: Culture FeaturesEarly one morning in 1999, federal agents descended on tiny Chimayó, New Mexico as part of a nationwide heroin crackdown. Locals say it broke up families and drove addiction deeper into the community
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Inside the Alleged Manhattan Prison Smuggling Plot Straight Out of ‘The Wire’
Posted in: Culture FeaturesAuthorities shut down the Metropolitan Correctional Center because of its abhorrent conditions. A new indictment suggests it was rife with corruption, too
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150 Alleged Opioid Traffickers Arrested in Darknet Sting
Posted in: Culture NewsCoordinated international law enforcement effort led to seizure of more than 500 pounds of drugs — worth $31.6 million — in what is being called 'Operation Dark HunTor'
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Acid-Assisted Weightlifting and Dance Floor Radicalism: Parquet Courts’ Utopian New Groove
Posted in: Music FeaturesThe Brooklyn band strives for love and community amidst late-capitalist malaise on their new LP, Sympathy for Life
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The Psychedelics Industry Could Offer a Whole New Approach to Work
Posted in: Culture FeaturesPsychedelics offer a way to look at professional and economic systems more, well, psychedelically
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What Happened to Porn Star Dakota Skye?
Posted in: Culture FeaturesThe popular adult performer had been on the cover of hundreds of DVDs and partied with celebrities in Los Angeles. Then she was found dead in an RV on Skid Row
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Ethan Nadelmann Reexamines Adult Drug Use in New Podcast ‘Psychoactive’
Posted in: Culture FeaturesThe longtime drug-war opponent and founder of the Drug Policy Alliance covers everything from personal psychedelic use to the global future of drugs
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Johnson & Johnson Agrees to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioid Case
Posted in: Politics NewsThe company also agreed to end the manufacturing and distribution of opioids nationwide
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Phase 3 Trial Shows Promising Results for MDMA-Assisted PTSD Therapy
Posted in: Culture NewsWhen paired with talk therapy, MDMA seemed to allow patients' brains to better process painful memories and heal
