- "France's Socialist government plans to test launch a series of 'shooting galleries' by the end of the year [2012] where addicts can inject illegal drugs under medical supervision, the health minister said." http://www.france24.com/en/20121022-france-test-launch-shooting-galleries-drug-users 62 comments worldnews
- Top private school pupils more likely to end up with drug and alcohol addictions, new research reveals http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/private-school-pupils-drug-alcohol-addictions-more-likely-new-research-money-fake-id-a7766951.html 89 comments science
- Meet ibogaine, the psychedelic drug that could help end heroin addiction http://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9314315/ibogaine-treatment 11 comments science
- Texas church’s rendition of ‘Hamilton’ ends with sermon comparing being gay to drug addiction https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-churchs-rendition-hamilton-ends-sermon-comparing-gay-drug-addict-rcna42047 60 comments politics
- Suboxone - opiate addiction ending drug, and why addicts have to buy from street dealers. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/31/157665908/episode-391-the-anti-addiction-pill-thats-big-business-for-drug-dealers 8 comments science
- GOP Candidates Call For End To Stigma Around Drug Addiction http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_gop_2016_heroin?site=ap&section=home&template=default&ctime=2016-01-05-15-54-36 21 comments politics
- Mass Incarceration Has Become the New Welfare - "Mass incarceration is not just (or even mainly) a response to crime, but rather a perverse form of social spending that uses state power to address a host of social problems at the back end, from poverty to drug addiction to misbehavior in school." http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/mass-incarceration-has-become-the-new-welfare/404422/ 14 comments politics
- Let's End the farce we call the "War on Drugs" and adopt some reasonable strategies to combat addiction without criminalizing drug users http://mynameisjujube.blogspot.com/2010/12/should-us-follow-portugals-lead-and.html 17 comments politics
- Dustin Rhodes: "For those struggling with addiction, I was where you are and my life was turned upside down over drugs. Most times the addict doesn't even know or think he has a problem. Trust me, I know. You are either going to hit rock bottom and end up in jail or worse, dead. Don't let that.. https://twitter.com/dustinrhodes/status/1654330508623454208?s=19&t=3Tup7yq88WD6ooAakNchrg 14 comments squaredcircle
- Ending drug prohibition seems like a huge heave, just as ending alcohol prohibition did. But when it is gone, when the drug gangs are a bankrupted memory, when drug addicts are treated not as immoral criminals but as ill people needing health care, who will grieve? http://www.slate.com/id/2255385/ 239 comments politics
- "Why has America become a nation that can't make anything bad end, like wars, farm subsidies, our oil addiction, the drug war, useless weapons programs and can't make anything good start, like health care reform, immigration reform, rebuilding infrastructure?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-if-america-cant_b_299383.html? 686 comments politics
- Bupe could end heroin addiction and cut crime, but it isn't patented so drug companies ignore it. Why the best technology doesn't always win. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/bupe.html 49 comments reddit.com