April is a journalist, writer, researcher and union organizer. She is a longtime member and former director of organizational development for Harm Reduction, Abstinence, and Moderation Support (HAMS), a 10,000 member worldwide, online group of people who want to change their drinking. She holds a master’s in public health from Thomas Jefferson University, and presented her thesis work at the National Harm Reduction Coalition’s 2016 conference.
It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the first or any other step on…
No drugs, no pain, very low cost, and it can break treatment-resistant trauma in one-to-five sessions? If such a treatment…
As cannabis legalization spreads across the United States, it helps protect people from criminalization, but it doesn’t protect you from…
The roots of today’s stigmatization of people who use drugs—and of paternalistic, exploitative, often cruel approaches to what we now…
The drug war inflicts further, lingering harms on the communities that it targets with police violence and mass incarceration. Even…
Kenneth Anderson founded HAMS (Harm Reduction, Abstinence and Moderation Support) in 2007 as a free online support group for people…
Kenneth Anderson is perhaps best known in the harm reduction movement as the founder and executive director of HAMS (Harm…
It will go easier on you if you cooperate with them," said the nursing assistant sitting beside my bed. Clearly,…
January traditionally sees a surge in rehab admission rates. And if you’re going to residential addiction treatment by choice, I…
Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug besides caffeine. According to SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 179 million…