Tag: opioids
No, My Prescribed Opioid Use Was Not a “Relapse”
Society tends to view banned drugs and their use in binary terms. People who ...
Taliban Announces Cruel Poppy Ban During Afghan Harvest Season
What’s that time-worn saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting ...
Myriad New Drugs Complicate Legalization, as Well as Harm Reduction
Humans have found or created a truly staggering number of psychoactive substances. Some, like ...
Kratom Helps Me Cope With Life, So What’s the Problem?
A kilo is surprisingly heavy, I thought as I dropped the package onto my ...
2022 State of the Union Includes First-Ever Nod to Harm Reduction
The 2022 State of the Union address was the first such speech to mention ...
Prisoner Who Sued for Access to OUD Meds Is in Solitary as “Retaliation”
The man at the center of a pivotal legal battle over access to methadone ...
Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually
Back before I’d ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time ...
BC Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin and No One Can Use It Yet
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia’s overdose crisis has been declared ...
Parolees With Opioid Addiction Need Choices, Not a Naltrexone-Only Policy
Across the United States, people with opioid addiction who are on parole aren’t getting ...
Almost None of NC’s Drug Treatment Grant Recipients Offer Medication
North Carolina’s latest state budget allocated millions of dollars to organizations that will facilitate ...
