How Diverting Opioids Can Be Harm Reduction
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What cops and regulators consider to be the boogeyman of the Canadian overdose crisis is in fact a tactic that…
Posts by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
US Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under Attack (Part 2)
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>> Read Part 1 here. The fate of a harm reduction organisation in Atlantic City, New Jersey is up in the…
US Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under Attack (Part 1)
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In some ways, people who inject drugs in the United States are enjoying unprecedented lawful access to supplies to keep…
The Forgotten History of European Drug-Dealer Activism
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In a small Dutch city outside of The Netherlands, drug user activists from around the world gathered in 1999 for…
UK Drug Council Knows GHB Crackdown Targets Queer People, Recommends It Anyway
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Spurred by media panic around a so-called “chemsex crimewave,” the United Kingdom’s independent drug policy advisors are recommending that people involved with…
The “Date-Rape Drug” Narrative Has Been Weaponised Against GHB Users
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"Wait…” my therapist reacted during our weekly FaceTime session. I had just mentioned my nightly routine of throwing back a…
What Zoom Can Mean for Quarantined Chemsex Participants
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University lectures, business meetings and friendships are increasingly being uploaded to the video conferencing platform Zoom amid lockdowns in response…
Banning GHB at Raves Is Dangerous
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GHB and GBL are central nervous system depressants, like alcohol, and produce an alcohol-like intoxication. GHB is a chemical that…
Child Reunification May Soon Be Impossible for Pregnant Drug Users in North Carolina
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North Carolina state representatives have approved a bill that would make it easier for courts to keep families permanently separated…
Bolsonaro Cuts Harm Reduction, Escalates Drug War
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Largely unreported in English-language news media, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has pulled the plug on government support for harm reduction,…