In her early professional life, Louise liked to unwind with wine. She loved the way it looked in a glass;…
Starting August 14, methadone patients face the very real possibility that their long-protected privacy will be gone. The Substance Abuse…
In 2018 alone, nearly four in ten people who were hospitalized in Massachusetts for their opioid use disorder (OUD) were…
The long-awaited final rule revising 42 CFR Part 2—the confidentiality regulation applying to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records—is out. …
It’s afternoon on the Monday after the Fourth of July. My daughters, ages five and six, sit perched on the…
Unhoused drug users in Dublin, Ireland almost entirely avoided projected COVID-19 deaths as a result of progressive changes in national…
Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work anymore. It only works for about…
March 2020. The stakes were enormous and the urgency acute: 1,000 of our patients were about to be pushed into…
“Dear Helen, You will be pleased to know that during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown we in India have also…
When I got on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) about 16 years ago, my decision had nothing to do with wanting…