Between 2015 and 2018, transgender women incarcerated in New York City’s first-of-its-kind Transgender Housing Unit (THU) were deprived of access…
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Senate…
When people who are dependent on opioids are incarcerated and denied access, they go into withdrawal—an often-painful condition with symptoms…
The range and intensity of coercion in addiction treatment isn’t well recognized. Yet coercion through Alcoholics Anonymous is long-established in…
The United States "drug czar" James Carrol released a report on May 3 announcing a goal to nearly double the…
Medication for anything only works if the patient takes enough. This is emphatically true for people taking medications for opioid…
There's nothing greater than living," says Ellis (above), who takes methadone. "We all want to live." Evidence shows that methadone…
To walk down the hill to the Douro River in Porto on a sunny day is to navigate a delightful…
In the lucrative but hit-and-miss opioid use disorder treatment field, buprenorphine is one medication that has demonstrated outstanding efficacy. It’s…
To accompany Alison Knopf's April 16 article about buprenorphine in light of federal charges against Suboxone manufacturer Indivior, Filter obtained…