Amy Sullivan will join the Wadena County Historical Society on Saturday, May 14, for a virtual presentation and discussion of her book OPIOID RECKONING.
The use of Narcan to reverse drug overdoses in San Francisco began as an underground movement more than two decades ago. It's part of a long history of harm reduction that stretches from the Summer of Love in 1967 to today's fentanyl crisis.
Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction as well as a contributing
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington says her office does not prosecute for possession of 'personal use' amounts of drugs. But prosecutors acknowledge a gap between.
The history of the movement, as told in Maia Szalavitz’s recent book, is one of unlikely success. But what about failed experiments like prescribed heroin?