Tag: addiction
When People Ask Harm Reductionists, “What About Treatment?”
“What about treatment?” I’m commonly asked this question by well-intentioned folks when I say ...
Neither Snake Oil Nor Silver Bullet: Ibogaine for Opioid Use Disorder
“But as fascinating as the pharmacology of ibogaine [is], it is the chemistry of ...
NIDA to Fund Development of New Psychedelics-Based SUD Treatments
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting proposals to develop psychedelics into treatments ...
Hospital Addiction Consult Teams Seek to Fight Stigma, Meet Needs
As people continue to suffer with the many preventable side effects of not having ...
Why I Won’t Celebrate National Recovery Month
It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the ...
A Daughter’s Life and Death, Seen Through a Harm Reduction Lens
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells ...
The False Claim That Addiction Is “All About the Dopamine”
It seems today that everyone and their brother knows about the dopamine hypothesis of ...
Drug Courts Don’t Just Force People Into Treatment. They Deny Us, Too.
Standing in the courtroom as I awaited sentencing, the light tapping of the stenographer ...
Teenagers Pathologized by Traditional Addiction Treatment
When Alice* was 12 years old, her mother discovered some diary entries she had ...
Will Colorado Open the Nation’s First Ibogaine Clinic?
A bill approved by lawmakers might see Colorado become the first state in the ...
