Published Writings:
An honest look at the promise and pitfalls of decriminalization. VitalCityNYC.
Don’t Blame Drug Decriminalization for What the Housing Crisis Has Caused. Truthout.
Early Doctors Diagnosed Diseases by Looking at Urine. JSTOR Daily.
The Spravato Diaries: My Ketamine-ish Depression Treatment. Filter Magazine.
Buprenorphine access: Telehealth revolution faces uncertain future. Filter Magazine.
Harm reduction saved my life. National Harm Reduction Coalition.
Are Fentanyl Test Strips Helpful for Counterfeit Pills? Filter Magazine.
Thousands of Free Naloxone Doses Hitting Music Events This Summer. Filter Magazine.
Language Matters: Is This a Drug Overdose or Drug Poisoning Crisis? Talking Drugs.
Oregon’s Decrim Funding Has Been a Trial to Implement. Better Is to Come. Filter Magazine.
The Other Crime Victims. JSTOR Daily.
Youth Overdose Crisis Swells Because Drug Warriors “Cried Wolf.” Filter.
Crime Waves and Moral Panics. JSTOR Daily.
My Name is Meth. JSTOR Daily.
Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January 2010 to June 2021. JAMA.
Our Housing Crisis, Divided. Medium.
50 Years Later: The Evolution of Prison Policy. JSTOR Daily.
Learning the blues: West Coast grapples with shifting drug supply. Filter Magazine.
How veterans created PTSD. JSTOR Daily.
Hip hop and harm reduction on tour. Filter Magazine.
The US Is facing a naloxone shortage at the worst possible time. Filter Magazine.
The other public health crisis: how DOJ can flatten the overdose curve. The Appeal.
What does patriotism mean to US military veterans? Al Jazeera English.
Drug decriminalization in Oregon: How’s it going so far? Filter Magazine.
Overdose deaths are a pandemic catastrophe. Here’s how Biden must act. Co-written with Charlotte Bismuth. Medium.
Tensions around police are high. The vultures have swooped in. The Oregonian.
An overdose epidemic is raging alongside the coronavirus pandemic. Co-written with Joseph Friedman. The LA Times.
The words journalists use often reduce humans to the crimes they commit. But that’s changing. Co-written with Charlotte West. Poynter.
I used to be addicted to heroin. Oregon decriminalizing drugs is a historic victory for human rights. The Portland Mercury.
I thought jail would help me get clean. I was dead wrong. The Marshall Project.
Crack, mass incarceration, and Black trauma: Jeffrey’s story. Filter Magazine.
The feds have a long history of snatching people up. Only now they are targeting middle-class white people. Co-written with Leo Beletsky. The Appeal.
Not pro-police, but pro-humanity. The Oregonian.
The price of America’s quest for an external enemy Al-Jazeera.
Lessons from incarceration: enduring isolation in times of uncertainty Human Parts.
My friend and I both took heroin. He overdosed. Why was I charged with his death? The Washington Post.
Punishment is no cure for addiction. Street Roots.
Incarceration won't fix our drug crisis, The Oregonian.
Money changed everything for me in prison. The Marshall Project.
My re-entry story Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
When almost all your fellow inmates speak another language. Vice.