Tag: addiction
Safer Drinking During Desperate Times
We are all doing our best to adjust to the new “normal” in the ...
SUD Patients’ Confidentiality a Quiet Victim of the CARES Act
It took COVID-19 to do what the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...
It Took a Pandemic to Improve Some People’s Access to Opioid Addiction Meds
“I’m great! I’m having so much fun!” Bill Kinkle tells me on the phone. ...
When Methadone Clinics Support Patients Who Use Marijuana
Methadone patients face many harsh restrictions. Among them, clinics frequently test for and punish cannabis ...
So Alcoholics Anonymous Is “Proven” to Work After All? Not So Fast
Alcoholics Anonymous and its 12 Steps, with their prescription of abstinence, have dominated America’s ...
San Diego County Lawmaker Pushes to End Syringe Exchange Ban
A lawmaker in San Diego County, California is urging his colleagues to rethink a ...
The Real Harms of Abusive, Stigmatizing Language in Addiction Treatment
Ironically, the conversation that spurred a peer-support specialist at a buprenorphine program to yell ...
Why Are Nurses Denied Effective Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder?
One of the greatest hypocrisies in medicine is the restriction of standard-of-care medications for ...
First Psychedelic Research Company Going Public in Canada
Move over space travel, smartphones and New York real estate—soon, many investors will be ...
The Problems With Post-Overdose Response Teams
Drug overdoses (better described as toxic drug mixtures and poisonings) claimed nearly half a ...
