The US has historically been resistant to supporting harm reduction programs for people who use drugs. While some object to…
Marijuana, which is now legal for medical use in 33 states and counting, can help treat pain—something which opioids also…
Early one morning in January 2018, Bruce Gramiack Jr. awoke to find his cellmate's "lifeless body on the floor" at…
A 34-year-old Massachusetts man thought he was going to the Men's Addiction Treatment Center (MATC), a facility where he had…
In July 2017, an announcement by the FDA declared that the agency “places nicotine, and the issue of addiction, at…
Mood modification through drugs—intoxication—is a standard cultural reality in American history, but possibly even more so today. Rather than hopelessly…
I shot heroin for the first time because I wanted to write poetry about it. I'm cringing just writing that…
On February 12, Terry Gross interviewed neuroscientist Judith Grisel for NPR about her forthcoming book, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience…
Russian Doll, the acclaimed Netflix comedy-drama built around Natasha Lyonne, tackles loss, trauma, self-destruction and addiction. But most importantly, it…
Late last year, public health officials in Philadelphia—which ranks second among large cities hit hardest by the US overdose and…