Vital Strategies spoke with Helen Redmond about what she hopes to accomplish with her book and what the future of methadone dispensing could look like.

Pre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war

Three years after the Biden administration chided states for shortchanging historically Black land-grant institutions, some states have taken steps toward making it right.

Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.

The Trump administration underlines a “clear shift away from harm reduction and practices” that it says facilitates illegal drug use.

Louisiana gives 20 percent of its opioid payouts to sheriffs and 80 percent to parishes. But no one enforces how the funds are actually used.

“It’s called the ‘Texas two-step,’" an expert says of companies' maneuvers regarding incarcerated vicitms of their neglect.

The idea that real recovery requires “living a drug free life,” as the Dear Colleague letter puts it, is still pervasive.

Black and Hispanic people are “significantly less likely” to receive two medications used to treat opioid addiction, according to a new study.

Modern randomized controlled trials often rely on marginalized populations abroad.

Falling vaccination coverage is letting a deadly virus back in

Nichole Nelson is a senior policy advisor at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. She lives in Washington, DC, and has been a member since 2013.

After a militant 1970 hospital takeover birthed a pioneering detox program in the South Bronx, New York City is now studying what it dismantled, and what redress requires amid an ongoing overdose cris...

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

BY HILTON OBENZINGER Dear Claire Shipman, President, Columbia University. I received your letter and other notices about Columbia’s settlement with the Trump administration, and I’m disappointed an…

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

Millions of federal dollars helped pay for food for hundreds of thousands of children in Tennessee last summer while school was out. Washington made the same offer this year—and Tennessee refused.

‘There is no way in the world that I would have allowed my grandkids to have any contact with the boys if I had sensed danger,’ the ex-judge wrote

Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

Trump nominee Ed Martin’s 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.

The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

The arrangement would put a federal judge in charge of overseeing the university’s commitments to fight antisemitism. In doing so, it could lock in Trump’s preferred policies for the longer haul.

The arbitrariness of the tariffs is a feature not a bug in the plan to short-circuit the financial establishment

Students chained to a gate were removed by security officials. It came as the university planned to deploy 36 officers empowered to remove people from campus.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A young woman with a dog, absent-minded scarecrow, heartless tin man, and cowardly lion walk into a city of green seeking a singular wizard who stuns his constitue…

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.

The defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under criticism after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app.

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited “misinformation and lies” from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.

Funding cuts and immigration concerns might cast a long shadow.

It’s the latest sign that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department is not so focused on vaccinating against the flu.

They said they feel shocked, disappointed, and deserted by the university, and reminded of the tactics of authoritarian leaders.

BY JENNIFER RUTH In a review in spring 2022, which seems a century ago, I wrote that “an irony or paradox adheres to [Ellen Schrecker’s book] The Lost Promise in that this riches-to-rag…