State's Attorney Ivan Bates will run unchallenged in the primary election this year, paving the way for another four years of drug-war prosecutorial policy. Why isn't the left doing anything about it?

Baltimore has seen low-level drug arrests surge in the past year. Meanwhile, the city's drug supply has been inundated with adulterants. The two phenomena are inextricably linked.

Harm reduction advocates are fighting to repeal laws criminalizing paraphernalia this legislative session, continuing a years-long effort to protect access to syringes and other items. If successful, ...

Harley Ransom began practicing harm reduction in southeastern Ontario in the late 1980s, when he was 6 years old. His ...

On June 28, 2018, Rob Hiaasen was supposed to get his hair cut. But the 59-year-old editor and columnist at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis didn’t go — and now his family imagines what his day would…

Baltimore officials took to Annapolis last week to detail their new mass overdose protocol. As police crack down harder on drug users and those who sell them, the plan is a band-aid that won't redress...

Now more than ever, it’s important for everyone to know what journalism is and how it should serve communities.  You may have noticed in recent years that the wealthy and powerful have increased…

Since 2015, the state has recorded nearly 900 deaths among those experiencing homelessness in Baltimore, 47 of whom died from hypothermia.

A winter storm and sub-zero windchills recently ravaged a city that already struggles to keep drug users and unhoused residents alive. Like elsewhere in the nation, this weather is a death sentence fo...

A senior Canadian bureaucrat struggled on the witness stand to reconcile past statements by the federal government with its claim ...

“The war on drugs has failed,” Zack Polanski told reporters in October 2025. The new leader of the Green Party ...

Mobtown Redux advocates for the rights of drug users through independent journalism on addiction, drug policy and the harm reduction movement in Baltimore.

As theories continue to emerge for the dramatic turnaround in overdose deaths, a new study indicates that it’s largely unrelated ...

The harm reduction movement was founded upon boots-on-the-ground organizing, and it must remain organized to serve drug users during these difficult times.

Many of the affected grant programs had bipartisan support and President Donald Trump has supported them in the past.

The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

The Maryland Department of Health has scrubbed any mention of “harm reduction” from the state’s leading grant program for organizations ...

Baltimore health officials hope to achieve a 40% reduction in fatal overdoses by 2040. That's not enough for members of the Baltimore City Council, who want bigger promises despite a lack of funding o...

Harm reduction workers on the frontlines of the overdose crisis have gone more than six months without a statewide training program that’s been essential for a workforce already in the federal governm...

Mayor Brandon Scott has omitted overdose prevention centers from his list of legislative priorities for 2026. Paired with remarks from the city's top health officials, OPCs may be dead in the water.

Dozens of people gathered in McKeldin Square on December 18 to honor more than 80 unhoused Baltimoreans who have died this year ahead of a brutally cold winter that’s expected to worsen the death toll...

Mobtown Redux and Scalawag will co-publish the Redux Newsletter, expanding the reach of harm reduction journalism in Baltimore and paving the way for more reporting that advocates for drug users.

As a harm reductionist in Charm City, there's quite a lot on my Christmas list this year. Unfortunately, most of my wishes can only come true if Baltimore officials muster up some sorely missing polit...

The Baltimore Sun has published a series of articles about the city's overdose crisis. Yet a racist narrative is woven into the pieces, continuing a decades-long trend of racist media coverage.