Tag: opioids

    How Stigma Against Addiction Devastates Pain Patients

    First it was a hip replacement. Then it became complicated by a MRSA infection. ...

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    Elizabeth Brico

    State of the Union: Trump’s Real “Special Guest” Was Bad Drug Policy

    President Donald Trump’s special guests to the State of the Union address on February ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    Companies Use Patient Data to Generate “Risk Scores” for Their Likelihood of Addiction

    The Food and Drug Administration ended 2018 by awarding Milliman, a health insurance consulting ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    Struggling to Compete with Fentanyl, Mexico’s Poppy Farmers Ask for Legalization

    Gonzalo Hernandez* first heard the word “fentanyl” about two years ago. Hernandez, who lives ...

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    Simon Schatzberg

    Incarcerated Women Who Use Drugs Find Ways to Care for One Another

    Faced with the inherent harms of drug prohibition, people who use opioids find ways ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    Harm Reduction in the Land of 10,000 Rehabs

    Addiction counselor Stephanie Devich points to a Christmas tree glimmering with purple and silver ...

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    Tessa Torgeson

    The Parenting Journey of a Mom Whose Daughter Survived 13 Overdoses

    Across North America, older people who never attended a protest in their lives are ...

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    Travis Lupick

    UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Opioid Strategy Ignores What’s Most Proven to Work

    Earlier this year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched an ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard