Tag: health care
They Call Me a Drug Seeker. Here’s What Their Opioid Policies Did to Me.
My life changed in a matter of seconds, when in 2010 I sustained a ...
FL Students Prepare Mass Protest as Schools Hand Over Trans Health Data
On February 23, a student-led walkout will mark the largest protest to date of ...
New Mexico’s Effort to Authorize Safe Consumption Sites
New Mexico lawmakers are working to pass a bill to open safe consumption sites ...
The Spravato Diaries: My Ketamine-ish Depression Treatment
In the fall of 2020, COVID lockdown-induced depression triggered my incarceration-related PTSD and related ...
As a Disabled Drug User, Home Health Care Leaves Me on the Floor
My first couple of home health aides were picked by a California state agency. ...
New Jersey’s Plan to Offer Free Naloxone for All at Pharmacies
Getting naloxone should be about to get much easier in New Jersey. Governor Phil ...
“There’s More Accidents”: Disabled Prisoners Struggle Amid Understaffing
John, 41, has been incarcerated in the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) system for ...
SAMHSA’s Methadone Reforms Toothless Until We End Clinics’ Power
The COVID-19 pandemic and record overdose tolls have continued to pressure the Substance Abuse ...
The Gardener Who Grew Our Health Care in Prison
For most of his time in Georgia Department of Corrections custody, Charlie was assigned ...
The Barriers to PrEP Uptake Among People Who Inject Drugs
Since 2012, medications designed to protect people from contracting HIV have been hard at ...
