Tag: health care

    Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout Reflects Deprioritization of Sex Workers

    The monkeypox epidemic isn’t going anywhere, especially for street-based sex workers. NPR reports that ...

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    Adryan Corcione

    How 12-Step Programs Became Embedded in US Hospitals

    When I first went through treatment for an alcohol problem back in the 1990s, ...

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    Kenneth Anderson

    Seroquel Gave Me a Reminder That All Drugs Are Merely Tools

    Drugs are not good or bad. They are simply morally neutral tools which can ...

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    Alex Mauri

    UK Program Will Pay People to Quit Smoking During Pregnancy

    Pregnant people will be offered vouchers worth up to £400 (almost $500) to quit ...

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    Kiran Sidhu

    “Where They’re At”—Harm Reduction in Rural America

    On a warm winter night, a small group of harm reduction workers in Charleston, ...

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    Zachary Siegel

    We Emergency Doctors Must Get Better at Offering Buprenorphine

    An emergency department provider is a jack of all trades. The ED is open ...

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    Laura Haselden

    NZ Hospital Leads the Way by Giving Vapes to Patients Who Smoke

    The Whanganui District Health Board (DHB) has announced that its hospital on New Zealand’s ...

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    Helen Redmond

    First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Demands Insurance Companies Cover Medical Marijuana for Behavioral Health

    New Mexico’s largest marijuana company and a coalition of patients have filed a class-action ...

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    Kyle Jaeger

    “Administrative Detox” From Methadone Sums Up System’s Cruelty

    I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local ...

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    Ashley Shukait

    The Mission to Make Psilocybin Available to UK Cancer Patients

    “I was involved in oncology when I was a medic,” Dr. Malcolm Barratt-Johnson told ...

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    Kiran Sidhu