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As seen in: Narcotica Podcast, The Daily Beast, Apple Podcasts, C-Suite Market Update, Medium, The Washington Post, Harm Reduction Journal, Al Jazeera English, Intelligencer, ZDNet, Yahoo, Philadelphia Magazine and
Covers:  Criminal Justice, Privacy, Policing, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Politics, Technology, Economy, Culture, Photography, Religion
Doesn't Cover: Sports, Lena Dunham
The REAL @cmoraff. Guerilla Journo; Street Tox: co-host @narcocast ; consultant; Founder Narcomedia. tips chris@narcomedia.org

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Christopher Moraff is a journalist, writer and photographer whose work has covered topics ranging from architecture to politics. He was a 2014 H.F. Guggenheim Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and writes on criminal justice, policing and civil liberties for Al Jazeera America, PennLive and Next City. His byline has appeared in The Daily Beast, The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Business Insider, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia magazine and World Politics Review. F…

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Campus cops are shadowy, militarized and more powerful than ever

Campus cops are shadowy, militarized and more powerful than ever

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Christopher Moraff. He is a freelance journalist covering policing, …

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Achieving peace with honor in the war on drugs

Achieving peace with honor in the war on drugs

When actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of a heroin overdose in his New York City apartment on Feb. …

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Policing by the Numbers, Post-Ferguson

Policing by the Numbers, Post-Ferguson

Michael Brown Sr. holds up a plaque remembering his son, Michael Brown, in Ferguson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)…

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Blame Rises With Body Count in Baltimore

Blame Rises With Body Count in Baltimore

It's been two months since violent protests burned a path of destruction through some of Baltimore's worst ne…

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10-Year-Old Murder Defendant Shows Failure of U.S. Juvenile Justice System

10-Year-Old Murder Defendant Shows Failure of U.S. Juvenile Justice System

If Pennsylvania had set out to intentionally highlight the glaring defects in the U.S. juvenile justice syste…

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Why Community Policing Is Still a Good Investment

Why Community Policing Is Still a Good Investment

A protester shouts at St. Louis county police during a protest in Missouri. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) This year m…

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The Site | Narcomedia

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By Christopher Moraff Verified
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In the summer of 2019,  filmmaker Seth Dalton and journalist Christopher Moraff set out to produce what they thought would be a  straightforward profile of America’s first supervised drug consumption site, scheduled to open in Philadelphia. Instead they captured a city torn apart by disease, civil unrest and the politics of fear. THE SITE takes you from the most prolific drug market in America to the hallowed halls of federal court, exposing the best and worst of the human heart along the way.
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Reducing the harms of xylazine: clinical approaches, research deficits, and public health context - Harm Reduction Journal

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By Claire Zagorski, Christopher Moraff Verified, Aaron Ferguson, Mary C. Figgatt, Shoshana Aronowitz, Natalie Stahl, Lucas G. Hill, Zoe A McElligott, Nabarun Dasgupta, Rebecca A. Hosey
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Three primary domains of harm have emerged in relation to xylazine exposure via the unregulated drug supply—acute poisoning, prolonged sedation, and skin wounds. While there is a dearth of clinical research evaluating acute and chronic xylazine exposure in humans, collected reports from across North America reveal actionable strategies which can be employed quickly to reduce harms related to xylazine use.
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Narcomedia

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By Christopher Moraff Verified
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WHO WATCHES THE MEDIA? WE DO. Everything we get wrong about drugs, addiction and the overdose crisis can be attributed to a single source: The News Media. Journalists are ethically bound to apply certain standards to their reporting—things like corroborating sources, conducting actual field reporting, and sifting through primary research on subjects they know nothing about.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Production assistant on public radio - unpaid

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I'll never tell. (Actually I still do sometimes)

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Uncle Duke (alternate: William Boot)