Zach Siegel

Selected Works

Scientific American

• We’re Not Asking the Right Questions to Solve the Overdose Crisis (2024)

Harper’s Magazine

• A Hole in the Head - September 2022 Cover Story

New York Times Magazine

• “Tik Tok Invaded a Cruise for Content”

• “Hollywood’s Newest Stars? Nike, BlackBerry and Cheetos.”

• “Is it Toxic to Tell Everyone to Get Therapy?”

• “What’s Really Going on in Those Police Fentanyl Exposure Videos”

• “Is the U.S. Knee-Deep in ‘Epidemics,’ or Is That Just Wishful Thinking?”

• “Hollywood Has a New Way to Dramatize Addiction”

The New Republic

• “Grieving Parents are Battling over Drug Policy”

• “Police are Repeating the Drug War’s Dark History”

• “Give People Safe Drugs”

• “What the Sacklers Knew?”

• “How America Segregates Drug Use”

• “What if We Pay People to Stop Using Drugs?”

• “Scientists are Finally Denouncing Trump. What Took so Long?”

• “The Coronavirus is Blowing up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis”

• “How the Drug War Blob Took Over the Washington Post”

• “The Opioid Crisis is About More than Corporate Greed”

• “Alex Berenson and the Last Anti-Cannabis Crusade”

Vulture/New York Magazine

• “The Deadliest Year in the History of Drug Use”

• “BoJack Horseman Understood the Hardest Thing about Addiction”

• “Euphoria’s Honest Portrayal of Drug Addiction”

• “A Dark Shift in America's Overdose Crisis”

Columbia Journalism Review

• “Life-saving Opioid Addiction Treatments Get a Negative Slant”

• “I was Arrested During the Laquan McDonald Murder Trial”

Gawker

• “It’s Not About the Dopamine”

Guernica

• “Naloxone”

Men’s Health Magazine

• “Interview: Protester Deon Jones Shot in the Head by LAPD”

NBC News

• “Drug Decriminalization is the Real Winner of 2020 Election,” NBC News, 2020

• “Regulate CBD and Hemp,” NBC News, 2020

• “Decade in Review: The War on Drugs Took Hits in 2010,” NBC News, 2019

Undark Magazine

• “Screening Illicit Drugs to Prevent Fentanyl Deaths,” Undark Magazine Podcast, 2019

• “Is the Psychology of Deadly Force Ready for Courts?” Undark Magazine, 2018

Politico Magazine

• “How Joe Biden’s Policies Made the Opioid Crisis Harder to Treat,” Politico Magazine, 2019

Wired Magazine

• "Addiction Treatment is Broken, Can Tech Fix It?," Wired, 2018

Slate

• “Trump DOJ vs Supervised Consumption Sites,” Slate, 2020

• “Lessons in taking things one day at a time,” Slate, 2020

• “Ending the War on Drug Dealers,'“ Slate, 2020

• “How a Big Pharma Lawsuit could Succeed Where Big Tobacco Failed,” Slate, 2019

• "Life Expectancy is Down, Again, Thanks to Opioids," Slate, 2017

• "Where are the Opioid Recovery Activists?," Slate, 2017