Zachary Siegel

@ZachWritesStuff

Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.

GOP lawmakers in the House take up fentanyl, drug addiction, and the border as their new causes célèbres.

Politicians and lawmakers are equating large-scale fentanyl seizures with progress in combating the drug’s epidemic, forgetting the lessons from the age of crack.

Over 100,000 overdose deaths happened last year, driven by volatile and lethal fentanyl. The safe supply movement may have an answer for the crisis.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book provides the fullest accounting so far of Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis.

The line between legal pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs has less to do with science than with race, class, and gender.

Traditional treatments often take place in expensive facilities, demand total abstinence, and rely on punitive methods of control. A harm reduction model turns all of that on its head.

Trump’s Covid-19 mismanagement has led to top journals criticizing him as the election nears. But conservative disregard for science goes way back.

“Any gains we made in funding for health departments, syringe exchanges, naloxone distribution—it’s all at risk.”

The paper's otherwise stellar investigative journalism accidentally exposes the failed Beltway consensus.

New documents show that Big Pharma isn’t the only culprit when it comes to getting people hooked on addictive drugs.

How a best-selling thriller writer and media hound is spreading a moral panic about pot