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Women Who Use Drugs: Challenges Demand Self-Led Harm Reduction

Bree Cassell first injected heroin when she was 15 years old. Despite wanting to do so, she was so scared…

May 21, 2019

Number of Women Arrested for Drugs Increases at Four Times the Rate of Men

From 2013 to 2017, women in the United States experienced a rapid increase in the rate at which they were…

May 14, 2019

Coercion Into Addiction Treatment Is Ubiquitous: Five Ways It Happens

The range and intensity of coercion in addiction treatment isn’t well recognized. Yet coercion through Alcoholics Anonymous is long-established in…

May 14, 2019

Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult

Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor when it hit. They had just…

May 2, 2019

“Hotbed of Corruption”—NY Lawmakers Condemn Sex-Work Policing Amid Calls to Defund Vice Squad

New York state assembly members and senators, as well as a NYC councilmember, are calling on the  NYPD's inspector general…

April 22, 2019

Cannabis Consumers Have Power: Meet Some Pioneers of Industry Inclusivity

In the hyper-commodifying cannabis industry, Mary Pryor of New York City is raising her voice for people of color to…

April 18, 2019

Our Irrational Cruelty to Pregnant or Parenting People Who Use Drugs

Keri, now 35 and studying to become an addiction treatment counselor in Illinois, learned she was pregnant in 2016. In…

April 13, 2019

Beyond Legalization: Searching SSDP Conference Takes On Exclusion

On the last weekend of March, hundreds of student activists from around the US and the world converged in Chicago…

April 11, 2019

A Cop at My Bedside: The Nightmare of Disclosing MAT Before Giving Birth

I gave birth to my elder daughter in Palm Beach County, Florida in 2014. She was delivered by paramedics after…

April 5, 2019

Will Women of Color Leading Nonprofits Drive Deeper Equity?

  The reign of the middle-aged white man is over,” declared House of Cards President Claire Underwood in a steely-eyed…

February 28, 2019