Faculty Directory

Selected Works

• Selected Articles

  • “When Crises Collide: Mapping the Intersections of Climate, Pollution, Crime, and Punishment,” Northeastern University Law Review (forthcoming).
  • “Emerging Disparities in the Placement of Law Enforcement-Based Treatment Referral and Recovery Programs,” 48 Criminal Justice Review 359 (2023).
  • “Advancing Harm Reduction Services in the United States: The Untapped Role of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” 21 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 61 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Evaluation of an Experimental Web-based Educational Module on Opioid-related Occupational Safety Among Police Officers: Protocol for a Randomized Pragmatic Trial to Minimize Barriers to Overdose Response,” 11 JMIR Res Protoc 33451 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Involuntary Commitment as a “Carceral-Health Service”: From Healthcare-to-Prison Pipeline to a Public Health Abolition Praxis,”  50 Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 22 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Impact of SHIELD Police Training on Knowledge of Syringe Possession Laws and Related Arrests in Tijuana, Mexico,”  112 American Journal of Public Health 860 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Build It Better for Public Health: Improved Data Infrastructure Is Vital to Bending the Curve of the Overdose Crisis,” 112 American Journal of Public Health 39 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Warrant Checking Practices by Post-Overdose Outreach Programs in Massachusetts: A Mixed-Methods Study,” 100 International Journal of Drug Policy 103483 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Racial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” 78 JAMA Psychiatry 886 (2021) (co-author).
  • “Municipal Police Support for Harm Reduction Services in Officer-led Referrals of People who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico,” 18 Harm Reduction Journal 76 (2021) (co-author).
  • “HIV's Trajectory: Biomedical Triumph, Structural Failure,” 111(7) American Journal of Public Health 1258 (2021) (co-author).
  • “Overdose-Related Cardiac Arrests Observed by Emergency Medical Services During the US COVID-19 Epidemic,” 78 JAMA Psychiatry 562 (2021) (co-author).
  • “Reducing Police Occupational Needle Stick Injury Risk Following an Interactive Training: The SHIELD Cohort Study in Mexico,” 11 BMJ Open (2021) (co-author).
  • “Beyond Decriminalization: Ending the War on Drugs Requires Recasting Police Discretion Through the Lens of a Public Health Ethic,” 21 American Journal of Bioethics 41 (2021) (co-author).
  • “Harm Reduction, By Mail: The Next Step in Promoting the Health of People Who Use Drugs,” 98 Journal of Urban Health 532 (2021) (co-author).
  • “Characteristics of Post-overdose Public Health-Public Safety Outreach in Massachusetts,” 219 Drug and Alcohol Dependence 108499 (2021).
  • “Intersectional Structural Vulnerability to Abusive Policing Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Mixed Methods Assessment in California’s Central Valley,” 87 International Journal of Drug Policy 102981 (2021) (co-author).
  • “Situating the Continuum of Overdose Risk in the Social Determinants of Health: A New Conceptual Framework,” The Milbank Quarterly (August 18, 2020) (co-author).
  • “No “Back to Normal” after COVID-19 for Our Failed Drug Policies,” International Journal of Drug Policy (August 11, 2020) (co-author).
  • ““Pick up Anything That Moves”: A Qualitative Analysis of a Police Crackdown Against People Who Use Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico,” Health & Justice 8 (9) (May 22, 2020) (co-author).
  • “Fighting the Coronavirus and Protecting the Unhoused: Policies and Polling,” Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 376-2020 (March 18, 2020) (co-author).
  • “Tackling the Overdose Crisis: The Role of Safe Supply,” International Journal of Drug Policy (forthcoming 2020) (co-author).
  • “United Stated vs. Safehouse: The Implications of the Philidelphia Supervised Consumption Facility Ruling for Law and Social Stigma,” 135 Journal of Preventative Medicine (2020) (co-author).
  • “Policing Practices and HIV Risk Among People Who Inject Drugs – a Systematic Literature Review,” American Journal of Epidemiology (forthcoming 2020).
  • “Drugs, Discipline and Death: Causes and Predictors of Mortality Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, 2011 - 2018,” International Journal of Drug Policy (forthcoming 2020) (co-author).
  • “Stigma as a Fundamental Hindrance to the U.S. Opioid Overdose Crisis Response,” PLoS Medicine (forthcoming 2020) (co-author).
  • “Addressing Police Beletsky, L. 3 Occupational Safety During the Opioid Crisis: The Syringe Threat and Injury Correlates (STIC) Score,” Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (forthcoming 2020 ) (co-author).
  • “Conflicting Laws and Priorities as Drug Policy Implementation Barriers: a Quantitative Analysis of Police Perspectives in Tijuana, Mexico,” Journal of Drug Policy Analysis (forthcoming 2020) (co-author).
  • “Assessing Factors Associated With Discharge From Opioid Agonist Therapy Due to Incarceration in the United States,” 38 Journal of Addictive Diseases 1 (2020) (co-author).
  • “Toward Healthy Drug Policy in the United States — The Case of Safehouse,” 382 New England Journal of Medicine 4 (December 4, 2019) (co-author).
  • “America's Favorite Antidote: Drug-induced Homicide In The Age Of The Overdose Crisis,” 2019 Utah Law Review 833 (2019).
  • “Prevalence and Correlates of Injecting with Visitors from the United Stated Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico,” The New England Journal of Medicine (2019) (co-author).
  • “The Opioid Crisis: A Failure Of Regulatory Design And Action,” 34 Criminal Justice 35 (Summer 2019) (co-author).
  • “Practicing What We Preach — Ending Physician Health Program Bans on Opioid-Agonist Therapy,” 379 The New England Journal of Medicine 796 (2019) (co-author).
  • “Interactive Versus Video-Based Training of Police to Communicate Syringe Legality to People Who Inject Drugs: The SHIELD Study, Mexico, 2015–2016,” 190 American Journal of Public Health 921 (2019) (co-author).
  • “Treating Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Correctional Settings,” Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 361-2019 (December, 2019)
  • “Drug-induced Homicide: Challenges And Strategies In Criminal Defense,” 70 South Carolina Law Review 707 (co-author).
  • “Buprenorphine Deregulation and Mainstreaming Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: X the X Waiver,” 76 JAMA Psychiatry 229 (2018).
  • “The Global Health and Equity Imperative for Safe Consumption Facilities,” 392 The Lancet 553 (2018).
  • “21st Century Cures for the Overdose Crisis,” 44 American Journal of Law & Medicine 359 (2018).
  • “Deploying Prescription Drug Monitoring to Address the Overdose Crisis: Ideology Meets Reality,” 15 Indiana Health Law Review 139 (2018).
  • “Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants,” American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) (Published online ahead of print December 21, 2017) (co-author).
  • "Today’s Fentanyl Crisis: Prohibition’s Iron Law, Revisited," 46 International Journal of Drug Policy 156 (2017) (co-author).
  • "Health-damaging Policing Practices among Persons who Inject Drugs in Mexico: Are Deported Migrants at Greater Risk?," 46 International Journal of Drug Policy 41 (in press) (co-author).
  • “Action, Not Rhetoric, Needed to Reverse the Opioid Overdose Epidemic,” 45 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (2017) (co-author).
  • "Polio in Syria: Problem still not solved," 64 Avicenna Journal of Medicine 7(2) (2017) (co-author).
  • "Prison Health in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: It's Time to Repeal the Inmate Exception," 384 American Journal of Public Health 107(3) (2017) (co-author).
  • "Occupational Safety in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: Needle Stick Injury among Baltimore Police," 100 Journal of Urban Health 94 (February 2017) (co-author).
  • "Differential Experiences of Mexican Policing by People Who Inject Drugs Residing in Tijuana and San Diego,"The International Journal of Drug Policy (January 16, 2017) (co-author).
  • “Law Enforcement, Drugs and the ‘Public Health’ Approach,”The Crime Report (April 19, 2016).
  • “Prevalence and Correlates of Needle-Stick Injuries Among Active Duty Police Officers in Tijuana, Mexico,” 19 Journal of the International AIDS Society (2016).
  • “Utilization of Google Enterprise Tools to Georeference Survey Data among Hard-To-Reach Groups: Strategic Application in International Settings,”International Journal of Health Geographics (July 28, 2016) (co-author).
  • “Police Encounters Among Needle Exchange Clients in Baltimore: Drug Law Enforcement as a Structural Determinant of Health,” 15 American Journal of Public Health No. 9 (2015) (co-author).
  • “Fatal Re-Entry: Legal and Programmatic Opportunities to Curb Opioid Overdose among Individuals Newly Released from Incarceration,” 7 Northeastern University Law Journal 155 (2015) (co-author).
  • “Implementing Mexico’s “Narcomenudeo” Drug Law Reform: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Early Experiences among People Who Inject Drugs,” 10(4) Journal of Mixed Methods Research 384 (2015) (co-author).
  • “Engaging Law Enforcement in Overdose Reversal Initiatives: Authorization and Liability for Naloxone Administration,” American Journal of Public Health (2015) (co-author).
  • “As Heroin Deaths Skyrocket, Prescription Monitoring Programs May Do More Harm,”The Huffington Post (March 18, 2015).
  • “Expanding Coercive Treatment Is The Wrong Solution For The Opioid Crisis,”HealthAffairsBlog (February 11, 2016).
  • “The Benefits and Potential Drawbacks in the Approval of EVZIO for Lay Reversal of Opioid Overdose,” 48 American Journal of Preventative Medicine 357 (2014).
  • “Syringe Access, Syringe Sharing, and Police Encounters Among People Who Inject Drugs in New York City: A Community-Level Perspective,” 25(1) International Journal of Drug Policy 105 (2014) (co-author).
  • “A Drug That Should Be Easier to Get,”The New York Times (March 17, 2014).
  • “To Honor Hoffman, Focus on Prevention, not the Drug War,”The Huffington Post (February 3, 2014).
  • “Advancing Human Rights in Patient Care: The Law in Seven Transitional Countries,”Open Society Foundation (Open Society Foundation, 2013) (co-author).
  • “Access to Syringes for HIV Prevention for Injection Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia: Syringe Purchase Test Study,” 13 BMC Public Health 183 (2013) (co-author).
  • “Police Officers' and Paramedics' Experiences with Overdose and their Knowledge and Opinions of Washington State's Drug Overdose-Naloxone-Good Samaritan law,” 90(6) Journal of Urban Health 1102 (2013) (co-author).
  • “Police Education as a Component of a National HIV Response: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan,” 132 Drug Alcohol Depend 48 (2013) (co-author).
  • “Beyond the Anti-Prostitution Pledge: The Public Health Buck Does Not Stop Here,”The Huffington Post (June 21, 2013).
  • “We Can Fight This Feeling: The Loss of Cory Monteith and How We Can Prevent Future Overdose Fatalities,” The Huffington Post (July 25, 2013).
  • “Policy Reform to Shift the Health and Human Rights Environment for Vulnerable Groups: The Case of Kyrgyzstan’s Instruction 417," 14(2) Health and Human Rights 1 (2012) (co-author).
  • “Prevention of Fatal Opioid Overdose," 308(18) Journal of the American Medical Association 1863 (2012) (co-author).
  • “Harmonizing Disease Prevention and Police Practice in the Implementation of HIV Prevention Programs: Up-Stream Strategies from Wilmington, Delaware,” 9(17) Harm Reduction Journal (2012) (co-author).
  • “Syringe Confiscation as an HIV Risk Factor: the Public Health Implications of Arbitrary Policing in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,” 90(2) Journal of Urban Health 1099 (co-author).
  • “Mexico’s Northern Border Conflict: Collateral Damage to Health and Human Rights of Vulnerable Groups,” 31(5) Pan American Journal of Public Health 304 (2012) (co-author).
  • “Police Training to Align Law Enforcement and HIV Prevention: Preliminary Evidence from the Field,” 101(11) American Journal of Public Health 2012 (2011) (co-author).
  • “The Roles of Law, Client Race, and Program Visibility in Shaping Police Interference with the Operation of Syringe Exchange Programs,” 106(2) Addiction 257 (2011) (co-author).
  • “Stopping an Invisible Epidemic: Legal Issues in the Provision of Naloxone to Prevent Opioid Overdose,” 1 Drexel Law Review 273 (2009) (co-author).
  • “Policy Innovation in the Time of New Federalism: Legal Framework for Safe Injection Facilities in the United States,” 53 St. Louis University Law Journal 1089 (2009) (co-author).
  • “Do Criminal Laws Influence HIV Risk Behavior? An Empirical Trial,” 39 Arizona State Law Journal 467 (2007) (co-author).
  • “Physicians’ Attitude Towards and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Treat Accidental Opiate Overdose: Challenges and Opportunities,” 84(1) Journal of Urban Health 126 (2006) (co-author).

• Selected Commentary

  • “Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death,” The New York Times (March 11, 2024).
  • “Narcan Saves Lives — But Finding It Can Be Onerous in Massachusetts,” The Boston Globe (January 18, 2024).
  • “Will ‘Texas Tough’ Work in Fighting Fentanyl Fatalities?,” Black News (January 10, 2024).
  • “When Drug Busts Lead to More Overdoses We’re on the Wrong Path,” CommonWealth Magazine (July 11, 2023).
  • “‘The Drug Bust Paradox’: Study Shows Opioid Deaths Double After Police Action,” STAT (June 13, 2023).
  • “A Teen Girl Is Facing Murder Charges After Two Of Her Classmates Died of Overdoses,”VICE (May 24, 2023).
  • “25 American Cities Where Police Are Funded Better Than Health and Social Services,” 24/7 Wall Street (May 21, 2023).
  • “Expert Calls for Reforms to Address the Overdose Crisis,” Newswise (May 1, 2023).
  • “Billerica Officer Hospitalized After Fentanyl Exposure – But Experts Say It Probably Wasn't an Overdose,” NBC Boston (April 21).
  • “Experts Weigh in on Alberta Considering Involuntary Treatment,” The Globe and Mail (April 20).
  • “Don’t Curb Opioid Prescriptions Through Telemedicine. They’re Saving Lives,” Los Angeles Times (April 15)
  • “Chicago Is Seeing an Increase in Fatal Meth Overdoses. Here’s Why,” Chicago Sun Times (February 24, 2023).
  • “One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America's Overdose Crisis,” The New York Times (February 22, 2023).
  • “Mexico, U.S. Officials Call for Action After Investigation Into Counterfeit Medicine,” Los Angeles Times (February 15, 2023).
  • “Children Not Target of ‘Rainbow Fentanyl,’ Experts Say. And Adding Color May Actually Protect Drug Users,” News@Northeastern (October 14, 2022).
  • “Towns Are Going After Syringe Services. The A.D.A. May Be Their Best Defense,” Harvard Public Health (September 29, 2022).
  • “Drug-induced Homicide Should Not Result in Prison Time for Those Who Call For Help,” USA Today (August 2, 2022).
  • “With National Data on Drug Overdoses Lacking, University of Texas Project Looks To Help Provide a Solution,” The Texas Tribune (July 5, 2022).
  • “As Biden Administration Fights Opioid Overdoses, Harm Reduction Groups Face Opposition,” USA Today (June 11, 2022).
  • “More Collar Counties Charge Dealers With Drug-induced Homicide for Drug Overdose Deaths,” ABC 7 Chicago (May 24, 2022).
  • “‘It’s Not Working Fast Enough.’ Heartbreak, Drugs, and Crime Persist at Mass. And Cass, Leaving Neighbors Asking, ‘What’s Next?’,” The Boston Globe (May 11, 2022).
  •  “Drug-Induced Panic,” Inquest (April 14, 2022).
  • “Black Man Sentenced to 124 Years for Selling Fentanyl That Led to Overdose,” VICE (April 5, 2022).
  • “HIV Outbreak Among Drug Users Accelerates in Boston,” The Boston Globe (March 17, 2022).
  • “White House Caves to Fox News Obsession Over Biden ‘Crack Pipe’ Faux-Scandal,” The Daily Beast (February 10, 2022).
  • “Feds Say No Taxpayer Money for Safer Drug-smoking Pipes,” WAGM-TV(February 9, 2022).
  • “No Money for Drug Pipes: Feds Douse Social Media Firestorm,” Associated Press (February 9, 2022).
  • “Prosecutors Are Going After Michael K. Williams’ Alleged Dealer Using An Increasingly Common — And Controversial — Charge,” Gothamist (February 6, 2022).
  • Letter to the Editor: “Surging Racial Disparities in the U.S. Overdose Crisis,” The American Journal of Psychiatry (February 2, 2022) (co-author).
  • “Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts,” The Davis Vanguard (March 8, 2021).
  • “Forced Addiction Treatment Could be Death Sentence During COVID-19,” CommonWealth (January 20, 2021).
  • “Misinformation is Fueling the Overdose Crisis,” CommonWealth (January 16, 2022).
  • “San Francisco’s New Answer for Its Drug Problem: More Cops,” VICE (December 15, 2021).
  • “With Overdose Deaths Surging, Advocates on the Ground Push for Over-the-Counter Naloxone,” Kaiser Health News (December 14, 2021).
  • “Biden’s Big Decision on the Opioid Crisis,” Politico (December 7, 2021).
  • “Time for Safehouse to Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission, on Philly Supervised Injection Site, Experts Say,” WHYY Public Media (December 2, 2021).
  • “Mass. and Cass Cleanup has Mixed Success, as Special Court Faces Renewed Criticism,” The Boston Globe (November 6, 2021).
  • “Boston Notifies Mass. and Cass Residents Tents Will Be Removed Monday Morning,” NBC Boston (October 29, 2021).
  • “Price for Drug that Reverses Opioid Overdoses Soars Amid Record Deaths,” The Guardian (October 19, 2021).
  • “Video of Officer’s Collapse After Handling Powder Draws Skepticism,” The New York Times (August 7, 2021).
  • “Experts Question Video of Deputy Who Purportedly “Almost Died” From Substance Said To Be Fentanyl,” CBS News (August 10, 2021).
  • “Overdose Deaths In State Prisons Have Jumped Dramatically Since 2001,” NPR (July 15, 2021).
  • “A Federal Court Rethinks the Practice of Punishing Drug Use As Murder,” AlterNet (July 7, 2021).
  • “Fentanyl Seizures Rise in Houston,” Houston Chronicle (April 21, 2021).
  • “Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts,” The Davis Vanguard (March 8, 2021).
  • “Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts,” The Crime Report (March 5, 2021).
  • “Forced Addiction Treatment Could be Death Sentence During COVID-19,” CommonWealth (January 20, 2021).
  • “In LA, Ambulances Circle for Hours and ICUs Are Full. Is This What COVID-19 Has in Store for the Rest of the Country?,” STAT (January 15, 2021).
  • “LA Was Uniquely Vulnerable To This COVID Catastrophe. Here Is What Went Wrong,” Los Angeles Times (December 28, 2020).
  • “Power Up: DOJ Settled for Billions to Allay the Opioid Crisis. The Challenge Now: Getting the Money,” The Washington Post (December 18, 2020).
  •  “Purdue’s Demise Could Be a New Beginning for the Pharmaceutical Industry,” Health Affairs (December 18, 2020). 
  • “Philadelphia May Be on the Way to a Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2020, another COVID-19 Consequence,” The Philadelphia Inquirer (December 6, 2020).
  • “The Terrifying Triple-Digit Spike in Pandemic Overdoses,” Daily Beast (December 3, 2020).
  • “With Limited Boston Homeless Shelter Beds This Winter, Could Taking Private Property Be a Solution?,” Boston.com (November 23, 2020).
  • “Drug Decriminalization in Oregon Could be a Step Toward Better Public Health,” The Verge (November 20, 2020).
  • “One Simple Way Biden Could Prove He Regrets His Role in the Drug War,” Slate (November 18, 2020).
  • “US Saw 100,000 Drug Overdose Deaths in One Year Amid Pandemic, CDC Says,” The Guardian (November 17, 2020).
  • “Joe Biden’s “Mandatory Rehab” For Drug Users Are Rebranded Jails That Don’t Work And Cause Overdoses,” Forbes (September 10, 2020).
  • “Oregon Could Become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November,” The Appeal (September 1, 2020).
  • “We Desperately Need Safe Zones For Drug Users In This Pandemic,” Forbes (July 10, 2020).
  • “Memo: Fighting the Coronavirus and Protecting the Unhoused,” Data for Progress (March 31, 2020).
  • “The Wrong Way to Fight the Opioid Crisis,”The New Yorker (February 3, 2020).
  • “‘Treatment Facilities’ Aren’t What You Think They Are,”The New York Times (September 3, 2019).
  • “Drug Overdose Deaths Are Down for the First Time in 30 Years. Is This the Turning Point of the Overdose Crisis?,”Northeastern News (July 19, 2019).
  • “Has The Boston Globe’s Coverage Of DA Rollins Been Fair?,” WGBH's Greater Boston (July 15, 2019).
  • “Federal Grants Restricted To Fighting Opioids Miss The Mark, States Say,” NPR's All Things Considered (June 14, 2019).
  • “Meth Hospitalizations Soar 245% in 10 Years: Surge in Er Visits Is Flying 'off the Radar' - but It's Hidden by the Opioid Epidemic,” The Daily Mail (November 28, 2018).
  • “The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis,”The New York Times (September 17, 2018).
  • “Lawsuit: Washington Jail Must Provide Addiction Treatment,” The Washington Post (June 7, 2018).
  • “Surgeon General Wants Naloxone Widely on Hand. Is This feasible?,” NBC News (April 18, 2018).
  • “US Attorney Investigating Mass. Prison Officials' Treatment Of Inmates With Addictions,” WBUR News (March 29, 2018).
  • “US Investigating Treatment of Addicted Prisoners in Mass.,” The Boston Globe (March 28, 2018).
  • “Trumps Latest Ideas to Combat the Opioid Crisis Are Also His Dumbest,” The Huffington Post (March 20, 2018).
  • “Trump Still Wants Drug Dealers Executed-But Won’t Push to Change Death Penalty Laws,” Newsweek (March 19, 2018).
  • “Trump Administration to Seek Stiffer Penalties Against Drug Dealers, Reduce Opioid Prescribing,” The Washington Post (March 18, 2018).
  • “Measuring the Toll of the Opioid Epidemic is Tougher Than it Seems,” Propublica (March 13, 2018).
  • “Opioid Addiction and Death Mail-Ordered to Your Door,” BBC News (February 22, 2018).
  • “How a Police Chief, a Governor and a Sociologist Would Spend $100 Billion to Solve the Opioid Crisis,” The New York Times (February 14, 2018).
  • “Rescinding Federal Marijuana Enforcement Guidelines Could Spark ‘Chaos’,” Northeastern News (January 16, 2018).
  • “To Address Opioid Crisis, Researchers Call for Focus on Root Causes of Suffering,” Northeastern News (December 22, 2017).
  • “Baker Calls For Improvements To Opioid Treatment And Prescribing,” WBUR's CommonHealth (November 15, 2017).
  • “How Massachusetts Deals With Opioid Addicts: Jail Or Rehab?,” NPR's Morning Edition (October 12, 2017).
  • “Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers,” The New York Times (September 17, 2017).
  • “Is It Addiction Treatment Or Prison? A Look Inside A State Center For Involuntary Commitments,” WBUR News (September 13, 2017).
  • “Can Giving Inmates Access to Addiction Medication Help Ease the Opioid Crisis?,” The Boston Globe (August 7, 2017).
  • “Worse Than Jail: Addicts Civilly Committed Say DOC Abused Them and Failed to Treat Them,” The Boston Globe (July 14, 2017).
  • “Officers Rue the Return of US 'War on Drugs',” BBC News (April 18, 2017).
  • “After Pledging to Solve Opioid Crisis, Trump’s Strategy Underwhelms”Politico (March 29, 2017).
  • “The $4,500 Injection to Stop Heroin Overdoses,” The Washington Post (January 27, 2017).
  • “Marijuana in Massachusetts, What Happens Now That It's Legal?,” Northeastern News (November 28, 2016).
  • “On the Safe Side: Can Supervised Injection Facilities Help Reduce US HIV Rates?,” POZ Magazine (August 15, 2016).
  • “DEA Is Cracking down on Physicians Who Overprescribe Pills,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette (August 12, 2016).
  • “Ithaca Mayor Wants a Haven for Heroin Addicts,” USA Today (March 25, 2016).
  • “Are Safe Injection Facilities for Heroin Users a Step in the Right Direction?”Northeastern News (March 2, 2016).
  • “Ithaca's Plan To Open A Safe Site For Heroin Users Faces Legal Hurdles,” NPR (February 24, 2016).
  • “Legal Experts: Law Enforcement Officers Should be Authorized to Administer Overdose Antidote,”Northeastern News (June 15, 2015).
  • “A New Tool in Drug Overdose Prevention,”Northeastern News (October 30, 2014).
  • “Massachussets Limits Use of the Potent Painkiller Zohydro,” The Boston Globe (April 23, 2014).
  • “Naloxone ‘Stigma’ a Barrier to Prescribing,” MedPageToday.com (April 9, 2014).
  • “FDA OK’s Injector Device to Counter Drug Overdoses,” The Boston Globe (April 4, 2014).