I addressed the United Nations' 68th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs last week. My message was simple: Nations must reaffirm their commitment to discouraging drug use and promoting health ...

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug ...

In the past several years, the United States has found itself at an inflection point in its approach to drug policy, oscillating between reform and retrenchment. Amidst the ongoing overdose crisis, ...

American voters have turned against liberalized drug policy—an understandable reaction to the experience of West Coast states and cities, which recently tried approaching fentanyl use and drug dealing ...

San Francisco’s streets tell a story of transformation that city officials never intended to write. What began as a compassionate shift away from criminalizing drug use has evolved into an unexpected ...

Today, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is announcing the release of the Trump Administration’s Drug Policy Priorities, a comprehensive and coordinated blueprint to ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Drug policy was largely a backburner issue in 2025. Despite the ambitions of some moderate or right-leaning activists, and an apparent passion ...