The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is taking action against an increasing number of doctors for prescribing opioids to patients who overdose, according to CNN. The DEA took action against 479 doctors in 2016, compared with 88 doctors in 2011…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo’s ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with…

This report is the product of a comprehensive review of the public health and criminology literature, an analysis of drug policies in the U.S. and abroad, and input from experts in the fields of drug policy and criminal justice. By highlighting the…

Prop. 64 legalized marijuana for adults 21 and over in California. It also allows individuals with prior marijuana convictions to apply to have their conviction dismissed. By reducing and removing these offenses from people’s records, Prop. 64…

Drug courts in the United States routinely fail to provide adequate, medically-sound treatment for substance use disorders, with treatment plans that are at times designed and facilitated by individuals with little to no medical training.  In a…

An Alabama internist who had received a second chance after running afoul of his state's licensing agency was sentenced last week in a federal district court to 10 years in prison for operating an opioid pill mill and laundering the illegal proceeds…