Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

“What I experienced with ayahuasca was not an escape from grief, but a direct engagement with it… It was a fundamentally different process than the one I had relied on throughout my career—not control...

Training seeks to equip police and emergency medical professionals with harm reduction tools to reduce unnecessary arrests, hospitalizations

The public asks extraordinary things of law enforcement officers. The communities we serve trust us to make split-second decisions, use deadly force and exercise immense authority in moments of crisis...

Every few years, America discovers a substance it does not quite understand, watches a loosely regulated market develop around it…

Participants in a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Trump administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal have filed their final briefs in the proceedings—setting up the judge over...

Trump pushed legal limits with boat strikes, alienating allies, but traffickers adapted.

She's getting 65. Billy got 47.

Ruling rejects Florida’s attempt to enact a “speech ban on all public college and university professors,” protects academic freedom and free inquiry on campus.

Methadone for opioid addiction has been available only at specialty clinics. A bipartisan bill would greatly expand access.

A Democratic congressman has filed a new bill that would drastically overhaul how drugs are classified under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), including by letting states effectively force federal ...

Incarceration should leave people better prepared to return to society — not simply warehoused until the day they walk out the door.

The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.

Washington, D.C., offers a rare opportunity to study how police departments throughout the country might, and in fact must, do more with less.

Mounting evidence shows that punitive, coercive approaches to homeless addiction fail to reduce drug use and worsen housing instability.

Policing in New York City has always been about more than fighting crime. Over the course of a nearly 20-year NYPD career, I responded to countless calls that

A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for programs that helped make the decline possible.

The Oklahoma State Senate voted on April 29 to pass the Oklahoma Breakthrough Therapy Act. Formally known as House Bill ...

Policing in New York City has always been about more than fighting crime. Over the course of a nearly 20-year NYPD career, I responded to countless calls that

Policing in New York City has always been about more than fighting crime. Over the course of a nearly 20-year NYPD career, I responded to countless calls that

In 2018, after 23 years as a Navy SEAL, Jon Dalton retired and turned his attention to a new struggle: living with depression and anxiety.

A cannabis industry group calls President Donald Trump’s reclassification of state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug “the most significant federal advancement in cannabis policy" in ...

The governor of Pennsylvania is using the unofficial cannabis holiday 4/20 to press lawmakers once again to send him a bill to legalize marijuana. Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers held a hearing focuse...

Inside a program tackling PTSD and the often-overlooked impact of brain injury

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into ibogaine and other psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health ...

With the drop in overdose deaths, “we're celebrating: a death toll that exceeds total American combat fatalities in Vietnam, every single year,” writes addiction researcher Wayne Kepner.

HB 2929 follows a years-long push to open OPC in Chicago’s West Side, which has borne the state’s highest rates of overdose deaths.

Despite being key sustainers of the legal industry, Latinos are underrepresented as business owners in the industry.

Exclusive: Drug users face felonies and prison under Prop 36, with analysis showing racial disparities and little help

A new bipartisan bill would mandate the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish “innovative therapies centers of excellence” that would ...

For the first time in the decade that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has been tracking mortality ...

For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not build any state-run psychiatric hospitals, because ...

Retired Lt. Diane Goldstein spent 21 years with the Redondo Beach, California Police Department, which she joined in 1983. But these days, Goldstein is executive director of the Law Enforcement Action...

Lt. Diane Goldstein: There is already little reason for victims to be confident reporting assaults will lead to accountability

Increasingly aggressive tactics of federal immigration authorities demand a response from local police and police organizations that champion ethics, transparency and bias-free policing, writes Karl B...

People who use drugs in Baltimore, overwhelmingly support prescribed safe supply programs, according to new research. Published in the International ...

Law Enforcement Action Partnership (Criminal Justice Reform) is now hiring for the position of Data Analysis Program Specialist, Alternatives to Policing / Justice Reform / Community Responders in Bev...

The CLEAR program in Winthrop is a way to detour people away from a jail cell in certain cases and direct them to more appropriate resources.

Community leaders and advocates urged legislators to pass a set of bills seeking to limit the actions of federal immigration agents in a charged hearing of the Michigan Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary ...

New Jersey legislators are considering a proposal to require involuntary commitment for any overdose survivors revived by law enforcement. It ...

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