I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local mutual aid network in Michigan. I’ll…
A New York district judge has ordered upstate Jefferson County to offer medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to all…
Peter Vanderkloot’s groundbreaking article—Methadone: Medicine, Harm Reduction or Social Control—hit me hard. As a social worker, I helped people who…
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The United States is simultaneously experiencing two devastating public health crises—the COVID-19 pandemic and the overdose epidemic. As the rates…
The Methadone Manifesto is a brilliant, badass, long-overdue gut punch to the antiquated US methadone clinic system. Written by members…
I will never forget the first time I got to speak to Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek in a personal…
An Illinois Senator appears to be the first state lawmaker to push for a bill that would make a controversial…
[This story is published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, investigative news site covering New York state and…
Before our telehealth appointment ended one day last summer, my buprenorphine doctor asked me if going for monthly urine screens…