Tag: health care
Inside One Hospital, a Discreet Project Fights Doctors’ Nicotine Bias
Medical professionals are badly misinformed about nicotine, with severe and tragic consequences for patients’ ...
Look Behind the Headlines About Rising Vape-Related ER Visits
This summer, the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center published a report showing what ...
In-Hospital Drug-Use Study Shows Lived Experience Key to Better Policies
Patients using nonprescribed drugs in the hospital is a common issue, and raises dilemmas. ...
Stigma From Medical Providers Contributed to My Son’s Overdose
This year’s hit medical TV drama, The Pitt, is a worthy successor to those ...
Trump’s Deadly Drug War Is Also Waged Through Funding Cuts
On September 2, the United States military struck a small boat speeding through the ...
A Doctor’s First Taste of the Methadone Clinic
When I first neared the nondescript two-story building, I wasn’t sure I was in ...
“Mother of Methadone”—Trailblazing and Stigma in Addiction Medicine
With Dr. Melody Glenn’s new book—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, A Forgotten History, ...
People Seeking Methadone or Bupe Face “More Stress Than You Know”
Methadone and buprenorphine are widely prescribed and considered gold-standard medications for opioid use disorder ...
“They Just Dropped Me”—When Drug-Related Stigma Replaces Pain Care
When Phillip lost motor control on one side of his body, I had only ...
Lawsuit Seeking Psilocybin Home-Care in Oregon Permitted to Proceed
More people in Oregon could eventually access legal psilocybin following a new federal court ...
