Tag: gender
Women Who Use Drugs: Challenges Demand Self-Led Harm Reduction
Bree Cassell first injected heroin when she was 15 years old. Despite wanting to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult
Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beyond Legalization: Searching SSDP Conference Takes On Exclusion
On the last weekend of March, hundreds of student activists from around the US ...
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. ...
Will Women of Color Leading Nonprofits Drive Deeper Equity?
The reign of the middle-aged white man is over,” declared House of Cards ...
