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High Wire is Maia Szalavitz’s reported opinion column on drugs and drug policy.The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has one job:…
Last month, around the same time Bernie Sanders was heading to Canada to check out their affordable supply of insulin,…
This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.Two weeks ago, I was back in my hometown of Sault Ste. Marie in…
The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma began selling OxyContin in 1996. By 2001, it was already clear that addiction and overdoses…
Recovering from drug addiction is not typically a one-and-done experience. Often, people move repeatedly between treatment and relapse, and not…
There’s a scene in Felix Van Groeningen’s film Beautiful Boy where David Sheff (Steve Carell) tells his ex-wife Vicky (Amy…
The following post contains spoilers for A Star Is Born. Let’s get one thing out of the way: the new…
Before he died of an apparent overdose on September 7, Mac Miller was forthcoming about his long, complex history of…
This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.Vancouver Pride season is fast approaching and, for the second year in a row,…
Ever since he was a child, Joshua Lutz has dealt with the reality of mental illness. When he was five…