War on drugs has failed to protect Americans' health, welfare; it's time to ditch the taboo It’s been nearly 100 years since the U.S. sent heroin underground, banning the sale of what was, at the time, a marginalized opiate. In the time since, h ...
15 Sep 2016 - SR editorial board
The move reflects changing attitudes toward addicts, placing compassion over criminalization The Canadian government legalized prescription heroin this past week. The move comes four months after Health Canada proposed the regulatory change, and ahead of ...
15 Sep 2016 - Emily Green
Health providers announce plan for reducing prescription opiate overdoses This story has been updated. State and local government officials along with major health providers will announce new guidelines for prescribing opiates at a press conference Tuesda ...
1 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Inge Fryklund talks about U.S. soldiers caught in Afghanistan’s poppy wars As a Chicago prosecutor in the 1980s, Inge Fryklund witnessed drug prohibition play out in the American courtroom. Decades later, as an adviser to U.S. military deploying to Iraq a ...
24 Sep 2015 - Emily Green
Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...
29 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
From the streets to the stage, Sean Aaron Bowers grows up with poetry Poet Sean Aaron Bowers, 33, known to many as Johnny No Bueno, writes with the grittiest of voices. Reading his poetry is like jumping into the moshpit at a punk rock show. The brash lan ...
4 Dec 2013 - Claire Valentin...
Vancouver’s supervised injection site providing a safe place for changing lives By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Vancouver, B.C., knows how to deal with heroin addicts. Vancouver is the home to North America’s only supervised injection site, and the worl ...
21 Jul 2010 - Street Roots
Harm reduction, anyone? For the past two years Street Roots has covered what some are calling an opiate/heroin epidemic in the region. SR is in no place to determine if the region is dealing with what we can call an epidemic — but it’s not pretty. Last we ...
26 May 2010 - Street Roots
Return of the dragon- heroin takes over Portland's streets From the Sept. 18 edition of Street Roots. On a sunny Monday during the early afternoon, a 27-year old homeless man only wanting to be identified as “Joe” for this story walks down a hill ove ...
30 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots wins honors from Society of Professional Journalists Street Roots writers Mara Grunbaum, Tye Doudy and Joanne Zuhl took home honors from the Oregon and Southwest Washington Society of Professional Journalists May 30. The event honors journal ...
1 Jun 2009 - Street Roots