The federal government’s move to ditch confidentiality regulations for substance use disorder treatment will increase patients’ exposure to law enforcement…
The attack on patient confidentiality—by the very agency that is supposed to protect it—has begun. On August 22 the Substance…
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot eyes. Sweat beaded across her pale…
The federal government wants to weaken confidentiality rules for patients with addictions. This means people who have been in any…
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. It was compound and comminuted, meaning…
In 2018, Delaware had the sixth highest number of overdose deaths in the country, yet the state still has major…
On November 18, 2018 at Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) at Plymouth, an incarcerated person who had been…
For 10 months now, a Ukrainian harm reduction activist has been illegally detained by the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), an…
In October 2017, Community Medical Services (CMS), an Arizona-based addiction treatment provider, opened America’s first medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic that…