Tag: addiction
An Instructive Experience With Opium Poppy Tea
Like many overthinkers and traumatized people, I sleep poorly. My insomnia sometimes worsens to ...
Atlantic Canada’s New Hospital Services for People Who Use Drugs
There are all kinds of reasons a person who uses drugs might need to ...
The Rise and Fall of Confrontational Alcohol Addiction “Treatment”
Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called “therapeutic ...
Kentucky Shelves Plan to Use Opioid Settlement Cash for Ibogaine Pilot
A plan in Kentucky to create an ibogaine treatment and research pilot with opioid ...
When People Ask Harm Reductionists, “What About Treatment?”
“What about treatment?” I’m commonly asked this question by well-intentioned folks when I say ...
Neither Snake Oil Nor Silver Bullet: Ibogaine for Opioid Use Disorder
“But as fascinating as the pharmacology of ibogaine [is], it is the chemistry of ...
NIDA to Fund Development of New Psychedelics-Based SUD Treatments
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting proposals to develop psychedelics into treatments ...
Hospital Addiction Consult Teams Seek to Fight Stigma, Meet Needs
As people continue to suffer with the many preventable side effects of not having ...
Why I Won’t Celebrate National Recovery Month
It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the ...
A Daughter’s Life and Death, Seen Through a Harm Reduction Lens
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells ...
