Charlie Baker

    Charlie Baker is a pseudonym for an East Coast-based safe supply enthusiast who does not enjoy this fenta-dope that’s everywhere now. He misses real heroin. We should bring that back.

    Why I Microdose Suboxone, While Continuing to Use Lots of Fentanyl

    Buprenorphine, one of the three Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use disorder ...

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    How I Freeze My Cottons, So As to Never Get Cotton Fever Again

    The first time I ever got cotton fever, I thought it was just bad ...

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    Props for Public Drug-Checking, From Someone Who Sold MDMA in the ’90s

    In 1997 I went off to college, at an East Coast Jesuit school where ...

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    The Golden Age of Doctor-Shopping

    In 2012, right before prescription drug-monitoring programs (PDMP) shut everything down, I was seeing ...

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    All the “Opioid Alternatives” Are at Least Making Rehab More Bearable

    Rehab can serve a lot of purposes other than abstinence. For some people the ...

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    The Opioid Shuffle

    Over my 21 years of using opioids I’ve often joked to myself that I ...

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    Tapering Off Methadone Without a Clinic, in Just Two Years and 13 Rehabs

    Since early 2023, I’ve been surfing my way across what feels like every New ...

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    How I Use Short-Tip Needles: A Harm Reduction Guide

    [This article contains photographs and descriptions of injecting.]   I‘ve been using opioids for ...

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