Like many overthinkers and traumatized people, I sleep poorly. My insomnia sometimes worsens to the point that I feel the…
There are all kinds of reasons a person who uses drugs might need to go to the emergency room. These…
Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called "therapeutic communities" for people with addictions. It…
A plan in Kentucky to create an ibogaine treatment and research pilot with opioid settlement funding has run aground. It…
“What about treatment?” I’m commonly asked this question by well-intentioned folks when I say I am a harm reduction advocate,…
“But as fascinating as the pharmacology of ibogaine [is], it is the chemistry of this alkaloid that is overwhelmingly awesome.”…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting proposals to develop psychedelics into treatments for substance use disorder (SUD), with…
As people continue to suffer with the many preventable side effects of not having a safe drug supply, Addiction Consult…
It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the first or any other step on…
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells the story of how Elizabeth Elliot…