Tag: mental health

    NYC Jailers Hinder Patients’ Access to Mental Health Services

    People incarcerated in New York City jails are consistently obstructed from accessing mental health ...

    How Can Harm Reduction Do Better for Transgender People?

    In 2015 Tori Cooper decided to leave a successful nonprofit career to blaze a ...

    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 ...

    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 ...