Recovery from a substance use disorder has traditionally been conflated with “sobriety,” or total abstinence. In reality, many people recover…
[This article is excerpted from the book Rehab: An American Scandal. You can read Filter's interview with the author here.]…
Characteristics of the “psychedelic renaissance” of recent years have included numerous studies indicating benefits of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic use—with…
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…