By Ranarda Wright A staggering 87,000 people died of a drug overdose in America in the 12 months ending September, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I’m a...

By Carr McClain Gen. William Sherman said, “War is cruelty. You cannot refine it.” Our generations-long War on Drugs should be viewed through this prism. The damage wrought by this war is...

By Bryan Keller It’s becoming clearer every day that our experiment in the criminalization of drugs has been a failure, just as the prohibition of alcohol proved to be. In...

By Ken Flynt Mississippi has 78 people each serving 50+ years in prison on a non-violent drug charge, with no eligibility for parole. Twenty-one of them are serving that sentence...

By Brett Montague For more than a century now, America has struggled to combat the harms of drugs. Today, we continue to suffer unnecessary drug-related losses through overdose and incarceration...

By Christina Dent What in the world is Kratom and why is it in the news? The answers to these questions and how we respond to them will either increase...

By Bradley Wellborn, Esq. There are 121,000 Mississippians currently in need of treatment for substance use disorders, according to Dr. Mary Currier, the State Medical Officer. But in all of...

By Christi Berrong It was Christmas time when I got the call.  My son, who was addicted to drugs, had been missing for a few weeks. I slept with scrubs...

Today in Mississippi, taxpayers are funding two contradictory approaches to people struggling with drug addiction.  One approach results in an arrest and possibly jail time.  The other approach offers people...

By Guitta Hogue We are spending millions of dollars keeping people addicted to drugs in the criminal justice system. We could be using that money to restore them to their...