The federal government’s move to ditch confidentiality regulations for substance use disorder treatment will increase patients’ exposure to law enforcement…
The attack on patient confidentiality—by the very agency that is supposed to protect it—has begun. On August 22 the Substance…
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hosted the first-ever MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color between August 10-17…
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot eyes. Sweat beaded across her pale…
I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to using heroin in early 2017. Feeling…
All primary care physicians should screen their patients for drug use, recommended an independent panel of medical experts in an…
The federal government wants to weaken confidentiality rules for patients with addictions. This means people who have been in any…
Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid…
In 2015 Tori Cooper decided to leave a successful nonprofit career to blaze a trail advocating for the rights of…
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Senate…