Tag: opioids

    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 ...

    SAMHSA Weighs Permanent Methadone Take-Homes, Decades Too Late

    In March 2020, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections among patients and staff, ...

    A Court Rejected the Disease Theory of Opioid Addiction. Will We Listen?

    The idea that opioid painkillers are inevitably addictive was put on trial and refuted. ...

    Veterans Data Show Surge in Stimulant-Involved Deaths

    United States military veterans are increasingly vulnerable to stimulant-involved deaths, according to new research. ...