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• Marijuana

  

  Social justice baked into the laws regulating Massachusetts’s budding marijuana industry

  
  

  As Massachusetts prepares the legal framework for marijuana businesses, the state is trying to address a disparity in the way authorities applied anti-drug laws. In…

  • by Molly Callahan   April 20, 2018

• Opioid epidemic

  

  How opioid lawsuit money could help solve the epidemic

  
  

  One judge has the daunting task of resolving more than 400 lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies. Assigning blame for this complex epidemic won't…

  • by Allie Nicodemo   March 21, 2018

• Opioid epidemic

  

  To address opioid crisis, researchers call for focus on root causes of suffering

  
  

  There is no easy fix to the opioid crisis. But one thing is certain—traditional approaches have been failing, according to Northeastern professor and drug policy…

  • by Allie Nicodemo   December 22, 2017

• Campus & Commun­ity

  

  Marijuana in Massachusetts, what happens now that it’s legal?

  
  

  Massachusetts voters earlier this month overwhelmingly approved the legalization of recreational marijuana. We asked drug policy expert Leo Beletsky what happens next and how the…

  • by Joe O'Connell   November 28, 2016

• Health

  

  3Qs: How to overcome the global drug problem

  
  

  The United Nations General Assembly recently convened a special session on drugs, marking its first meeting on the topic since 1998. We asked Northeastern drug…

  • by Jason Kornwitz   April 26, 2016

• Society & Culture

  

  Are safe injection facilities for heroin users a step in the right direction?

  
  

  The mayor of Ithaca, New York, last week, announced a plan to open sites where heroin users can safely inject the drug under medical supervision.

  • by Joe O'Connell   March 2, 2016

• Society & Culture

  

  New White House drug program to help combat ‘national crisis’

  
  

  Northeastern drug policy expert Leo Beletsky described the federal government’s new Heroin Response Strategy, which looks to combat drug abuse through a public health approach,…

  • by Joe O'Connell   August 18, 2015

• Health

  

  Legal experts: law enforcement officers should be authorized to administer overdose antidote

  
  

  Opioid overdose kills some 25,000 people per year in the U.S—or 68 people per day. One way to reduce the nation’s number of opioid-related deaths,…

  • by Jason Kornwitz   June 15, 2015

• Health

  

  A new tool in drug overdose prevention

  
  

  Assistant professor of law and health sciences Leo Beletsky was tapped by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to lend his expertise in developing a new…

  • by Joe O'Connell   October 29, 2014

• Health

  

  3Qs: Access expands to drug overdose antidote

  
  

  Drug overdoses are reportedly on the rise both locally and nationally. The Massachusetts State Police has reported 185 fatalities since Nov. 1, which doesn’t include…

  • by Greg St. Martin   March 5, 2014