Tag: health care
How to End Stigma in Hospitals Against People Who Use Drugs?
In 2020, Ronald Richardson and his friends who used drugs in Philadelphia began noticing ...
Our Prison Is Used to Mental Illness. Taking Care of Our Own Was New.
In 20 years of incarceration across four different Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) ...
Prisoners Near Release Face a Choice: Not Getting Meds, or Not Going Home
[Read Part 1 of this story here] When prisoners with release dates enter the ...
Approaching COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in People Who Use Drugs
One of the many harms of the stigma society inflicts on marginalized people who ...
Medical Privacy Is Still Our Right in Prison, Unless It Involves Psych Meds
Just before the pandemic hit, when my Washington Corrections Center (WCC) job assignment was ...
“My Fear of Dying Was Erased”—the Call for End-of-Life Psilocybin Care
When Janis Hughes finished her first high-dose psilocybin trip, she thought she might die ...
In BC Public Housing, Older Drug Users Denied Home Health Services
Inside supportive housing facilities in Kelowna, British Columbia, residents who use drugs reported that ...
Endometriosis Is One Reason I Use Fentanyl. Medical Stigma Is Another.
I’ve lived with chronic pain since I was 13. Endometriosis, wherein the sort of ...
Our Film Tour Is Exposing Methadone Clinics’ Cruelty
Swallow THIS: A Documentary About Methadone and COVID-19 is currently on tour nationwide. Marilena ...
Methadone Clinics Angry at Bad PR, But Not Afraid of SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to revise outdated guidelines ...
