Why would anyone visit the DEA Museum? My excuse was to see all the lies and misinformation in one place.…
I first heard Edith Springer speak at the 2004 Harm Reduction Coalition conference in New Orleans. She was explaining how…
Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called "therapeutic communities" for people with addictions. It…
Publius Ovidius Naso, known today as Ovid, was a Roman poet of great acclaim and some infamy. His works remain…
The roots of today’s stigmatization of people who use drugs—and of paternalistic, exploitative, often cruel approaches to what we now…
Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman and writer, lived during the 1st Century CE. He died, famously, during the eruption…
On June 30, 2022, Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, closed its doors for good. It was the last facility…
A couple of months ago, I was cleaning off a table in what used to be the drop-in center—before the…