Moonshine, hooch, julep, toilet wine, clear—whatever they call it, over the past 30 years Tennessee’s prison bootleggers have improved their…
One of the first major cultural contrasts I was warned about as an American studying in Rome was the vastly…
Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called "therapeutic communities" for people with addictions. It…
Another federally funded study is suggesting that marijuana legalization may be linked to a “substitution effect,” with young adults in…
It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the first or any other step on…
I met Paul in 2018, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. I was an admin orderly; he was a new…
Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that’s available most commonly as a 50 mg oral tablet, and also as Vivitrol, a…
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome is a hypothetical condition in which a set of symptoms persist long after a person has undergone…
On June 30, 2022, Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, closed its doors for good. It was the last facility…
It’s a bitterly cold day in Montreal. The snow is falling in thick, cartoonish flakes, relentless winds have dropped the…