Opinion | Doing Away With Needle Exchange Programs Won’t Prevent Drug Use
Assaf is an epidemiologist and postdoctoral fellow researching substance use, drug-related overdose, and harm reduction. A needle exchange program, also known as a syringe services program, is a harm reduction strategy that provides clean and sterile injecting equipment to those who inject drugs. At first glance, these programs may sound radical. But the reality is, […]
What happens to marine life when oxygen is scarce?
In September of 2017, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution postdoctoral scholar Maggie Johnson was conducting an experiment with a colleague in Bocas del Toro off the Caribbean coast of Panama. After sitting on a quiet, warm open ocean, they snorkeled down to find a peculiar layer of murky, foul-smelling water about 10 feet below the surface, […]