Tag: overdose

Naloxone Man: The IRL Superhero Teaching People How to Reverse Overdoses

Naloxone Man (AKA George Charlton) in costume. Photos: courtesy of George Charlton Please note this article features graphic mentions of self harm. A community centre in a suburban market town isn’t the first place you think of when it comes to the frontlines of Britain’s opioid crisis, but that’s where I am on a cold […]

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Cops Are Portraying Themselves as Victims of Their Own Drug War

Getty Images/Steve Skinner When we think of the people who’ve been harmed the most by the war on drugs, Black and Indigenous people, as well as those who are low-income, or live in rural communities, come to mind. But ironically it’s cops, the primary foot soldiers of prohibition, who are often painted as victims of […]

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