Are we really going to shoot on sight people merely suspected of smuggling drugs? Their “proposals” are solely about appealing to the base’s worst instincts.

Addiction recovery centers where alcohol is abundant. Hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid fraud. And countless people plucked off the street by strangers in vans—sometimes never to be seen again.

GOP leaders brazenly skirted a state Supreme Court ruling with a law shielding the money from public scrutiny. Many other states are doing likewise. Are we repeating the tobacco settlement debacle?

In Silicon Valley, drugs are the new gateway to unleashing workers’ potential. The Nazis got there first.

Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.

Conservatives are bringing back some tactics from the original drug war. They’re cruel—and they also don’t stand a chance of working.

GOP lawmakers in the House take up fentanyl, drug addiction, and the border as their new causes célèbres.

Meet the Americans who are exploring new frontiers in hallucinogenic research through a nascent technology known as extended-state DMT.

Politicians and lawmakers are equating large-scale fentanyl seizures with progress in combating the drug’s epidemic, forgetting the lessons from the age of crack.

The GOP is ramping up its rhetoric about Biden, the border, kids, and overdoses.

The U.S. has treatments to help people dealing with opioid addictions but throws up hurdles to access.

The District is used to Republicans thwarting its independence. But local politicians are appalled that Democrats are now doing the same.

Right-wingers dusted off their 1980s playbook to demonize a valid harm-reduction technique—and Democrats shamefully caved to them.

Biden needs to ditch his old-fashioned ideas about marijuana and realize that legalization is a winning bipartisan issue—something he desperately needs in 2022.

Federal drug policy needs a major overhaul, but Rahul Gupta has a record of making harmful compromises.

Both coffee and opium come from plants. Why embrace one and not the other?

An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.

The line between legal pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs has less to do with science than with race, class, and gender.

They seeded medical breakthroughs and emerging markets. Now expunge their criminal records and let them go legit.

Traditional treatments often take place in expensive facilities, demand total abstinence, and rely on punitive methods of control. A harm reduction model turns all of that on its head.