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, ...
“I Am Not an Addict”—What Should “Recovery” Mean in 2019?
My name is Adi, and despite my years of struggling with meth addiction, I ...
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 ...
