Tag: mental health
Childhood Development Issues and Adult Addiction Fit the Same Pattern
Behavioral-developmental challenges in childhood and addiction problems in adulthood are two sides of the ...
Women Who Use Drugs: Challenges Demand Self-Led Harm Reduction
Bree Cassell first injected heroin when she was 15 years old. Despite wanting to ...
If You Care About Health Justice, Stop Clicking on “Florida Man” Stories
Who hasn’t taken a break from dreadful news cycles to have a good laugh ...
Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult
Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor ...
New Evidence of Smoking Disparities Underlines That Tobacco Harm Reduction Is Social Justice
Americans experiencing compounded social marginalization are at greater risk of initiating use of—and not ...
Cops Morphing Into Social Workers Is Not a Solution
All across the US, law enforcement asserts its power through its sheer visibility in ...
Shades of Sobriety: Life Shows That Recovery Needn’t Mean Abstinence
If your goal is sobriety defined as abstaining from everything psychoactive, good luck! Virtually ...
To Address Addiction, Confront Racism in Our Health and Justice Systems
It’s widely documented that decades of punitive criminal justice and drug policies have led ...
Yes, You Can Be Addicted to Cannabis—But There Are Sensible Ways to Avoid This
The seemingly inexorable nationwide movement to legalize marijuana has recently stalled in New Jersey ...
Drug Laws Undermine Ethics for Social Workers in Child Welfare
As a 20-year-old undergraduate student who had limited familiarity with substance use beyond alcohol, ...
