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Pusher Alerts

From One Pill Can Kill, a document published in December by the DEA that purports to demonstrate how emojis are used in text conversations about drugs. percocet and oxycodone: 💊…

No Joe!

by Andrew Cockburn,

Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

Career High

From testimony given at a grand-jury hearing last year by Sonja Farak, a former chemist at the Massachusetts State Crime Laboratory, in Amherst. In 2014, Farak pleaded guilty to tampering…

Legalize It All

by Dan Baum,

How to win the war on drugs

Alcoholics Synonymous

by Tony Thorne,

From a list of slang terms used by British students to describe drunkenness or the effects of drugs, included by Tony Thorne in the fourth edition of the Dictionary of…

You Are Not Alone Across Time

by Wyatt Mason,

Using Sophocles to treat PTSD

Hustle and Flow

by Alice Goffman,

By Alice Goffman, from On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, to be published next month by University of Chicago Press. Goffman, a sociologist at the University of…

The combination

by Ashley Nelson,

On drugs

by Daniel Kunitz,

Gateways to gnosis, or bags of glue?

America’s Altered States

by Joshua Wolf Shenk,

When does legal relief of pain become illegal pursuit of pleasure?

High praise

by John Hulme, Michael Wexler,