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Issue 6
On Drugs
How substance use shapes the city
Setting the Stage
Editors’ Note
Greg Berman
and Elizabeth Glazer
The Public Square
Ted Alcorn
Drugs in New York City: By the Numbers
Vital City
and Michelle Nolan
Highs and Lows and In-Betweens
Daliah Heller
How Weed Works: A Conversation With Margaret Haney
Vital City
Looking Back
There’s No Closing the Tap: A Conversation With Daniel Okrent
Vital City
When Gotham Was Heroin's Capital
David Courtwright
The Drug War: Race and Reality
Michael Javen Fortner
The Rise (and Rise) of Fentanyl
Peter Reuter
The Policy Record
Reduce Harm, Save Lives
Maia Szalavitz
Putting More Humility in Harm Reduction
Harold Pollack
A Safe Space for Users: A Conversation With Sam Rivera
Vital City
Portland, Portugal and the Lessons of Decriminalization
Morgan Godvin
The Real Reason the Weed Market is Broken
Robin Goldstein
A Narcotics Everything Store
Alex Knorre
Toward Solutions
The Marijuana Reset New York Needs
Errol Louis
The Drug War Without Cops
Charles Fain Lehman
The Failures of Alcohol Regulation
David Jernigan
How Law Enforcement Should Fight Fentanyl
Bridget G. Brennan
The Right Role for Police
Brandon del Pozo
Spending the Opioid Billions
Sara Whaley
and Joshua Sharfstein
Paving Pathways to Recovery for All
Terrence D. Walton
The Next Frontier of Legalization
Beau Kilmer
and Michelle Priest
My Substance Story
How Drugs Hurt or Helped Me
A Survey
Etc.
What We're Reading
Greg Berman
Issue 6 Board of Advisors
Brandon del Pozo
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown University
Ann-Marie Foster
President and CEO, Phoenix House
Beau Kilmer
Co-Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Chauncey Parker
Director, New York/New Jersey HIDTA
Noel Vest
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Terrence D. Walton
Incoming Executive Director, NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
Issue 6 Board of Advisors
Brandon del Pozo
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown University
Ann-Marie Foster
President and CEO, Phoenix House
Beau Kilmer
Co-Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Chauncey Parker
Director, New York/New Jersey HIDTA
Noel Vest
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Terrence D. Walton
Incoming Executive Director, NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals