Stories by Matt Harvey

Matt Harvey is an award-winning freelance journalist whose writing has appeared on AnimalNY.com, Black Book, the New York Post and the New York Press among other publications. He lives in Manhattan. subscribe to Matt Harvey's feed

Did America's First Drug Czar Secretly Supply Dope to Sen. Joe McCarthy?

Posted on: May 14, 2013, Source: The Fix

During the 1950s Red Scare, America's first drug czar fed the opiate addiction of America's most feared senator.

My Heroin-Addicted Friend Was Determined to Detox with the Hallucinogen Ibogaine ... I Scored It for Him and Supervised His Trip

Posted on: Dec 20, 2012, Source: The Fix

A first-hand account of a very alternative approach to escaping a terrible addiction.