Behavioral-developmental challenges in childhood and addiction problems in adulthood are two sides of the same coin. Both constitute self-defeating patterns…
Bree Cassell first injected heroin when she was 15 years old. Despite wanting to do so, she was so scared…
Who hasn’t taken a break from dreadful news cycles to have a good laugh at the screwball crime stories attributed…
Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor when it hit. They had just…
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It’s widely documented that decades of punitive criminal justice and drug policies have led to the US becoming the world’s…
The seemingly inexorable nationwide movement to legalize marijuana has recently stalled in New Jersey and New York, at least partly…
As a 20-year-old undergraduate student who had limited familiarity with substance use beyond alcohol, the most formative aspect of my…