Before admitting new patients to his practice, Dr. Miguel Diaz checks their prescription history. Diaz, a family medicine physician with…
I gave birth to my elder daughter in Palm Beach County, Florida in 2014. She was delivered by paramedics after…
Lack of access to methadone and burprenorphine, lifesaving opioid use disorder medications, for vulnerable incarcerated populations has long been a…
The US has historically been resistant to supporting harm reduction programs for people who use drugs. While some object to…
Marijuana, which is now legal for medical use in 33 states and counting, can help treat pain—something which opioids also…
There is a profound moment in the film And The Band Played On, about the early days of the US…
Early one morning in January 2018, Bruce Gramiack Jr. awoke to find his cellmate's "lifeless body on the floor" at…
Imagine going through opioid use disorder treatment with methadone or buprenorphine, perhaps getting a job and family and everything in your life back—except for one…
On February 12, Terry Gross interviewed neuroscientist Judith Grisel for NPR about her forthcoming book, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience…
Faced with the inherent harms of drug prohibition, people who use opioids find ways to take care of themselves and…