Tag: healthcare
Australia’s Experiment With Prescription-Only Vapes Has Failed
The Australian government’s medical, prescription-only model for nicotine vaping was introduced on October 1, ...
Methadone Clinics Step Up Their Backlash Against Reform
The members of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) are ...
How Fear, Misinformation, Stigma Have Devastated US Pain Patients
Tamera Lynn Stewart had been taking prescribed opioids for 12 years to treat her ...
“Devastating” West Virginia Law Could Practically End Syringe Provision
Over 1,200 West Virginians died of overdose in 2020, new data show—a 45 percent ...
Drug Decriminalization in Oregon: How’s It Going So Far?
Tanesia DeMacon is no stranger to jail. She estimates she was arrested no fewer ...
I Hid My Wounds for Months and Nearly Lost My Life: Stigma Kills Drug Users
It could almost have been a Saturday Night Live skit. I wish to God ...
Illinois Methadone Patients Could Be First to Have Privacy Rolled Back After SAMHSA Rule-Change
An Illinois Senator appears to be the first state lawmaker to push for a ...
Extending Telehealth Bupe Past the Pandemic Wouldn’t Require Congress
Before our telehealth appointment ended one day last summer, my buprenorphine doctor asked me ...
When My Suboxone Doctor Quit on Me, It Left a Frightening Void
Early in 2020, shortly before pandemic entered the everyday lexicon and face masks became ...
Biden Has a COVID Plan, But Won’t Learn Deeper Health Care Lessons
Donald Trump, the corrupt, narcissistic demagogue, has left the Whitehouse in the midst of ...
