Tag: addiction

    Alcohol Must Be Part of the Harm Reduction Conversation 

    Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug besides caffeine. According to SAMHSA’s National Survey on ...

    ACLU Sues Bureau of Prisons for Denying a Federal Prisoner Buprenorphine

    In a key moment for the rights of incarcerated people with substance use disorders, ...

    The Optimism Gap: Class-Tailored Addiction Messaging Fuels Inequality

    When people speak of inequality in America, they miss one of its powerful drivers: ...

    Drew Barrymore and the Case Against Labeling Children as “Addicts”

    Drew Barrymore appeared on the cover of People in 1989 under the banner “America’s ...

    Voices of Poverty, Pain, Addiction Must Be Heard in Cannabis Debate

    The New Zealand government’s announcement of a non-binding 2020 referendum on full cannabis legalization ...

    Why Those of Us Who Choose Sobriety Should Back Safe Consumption Sites

    In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without ...

    To Taper a Pain Patient? It’s Never One-Size-Fits-All

    Many years ago, I broke my ankle⁠—tibia and fibula⁠—in a fall from a horse. ...

    Social Factors Are an Essential—And Changeable—Element of Addiction

    Resisting efforts to exaggerate the dangers of drugs does not mean we should ignore ...

    Presidential Candidate Kirsten Gillibrand Praised Anti-Drug Scientology Group

    Four years before her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ...