Tag: recovery
Could Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Make a Comeback?
Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, was the sole remaining facility in the United ...
Trump Launches Recovery Initiative Taking Aim at “Disease of Addiction”
On January 29 President Donald Trump issued an executive order launching “The Great American ...
To Move Beyond Abstinence-Only, We Need Better Tools to Measure Recovery
Recovery from a substance use disorder has traditionally been conflated with “sobriety,” or total ...
Blowing the Lid Off the Scandal of US Rehab
Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make ...
The Systemic Transphobia of the Drug Treatment and Recovery Industry
I have been seeking recovery from alcohol, heroin and pharmaceutical opioid use disorders since late ...
SAMHSA-Backed Toolkit Introduces Harm Reduction to Families, Caregivers
The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver ...
Why I Won’t Celebrate National Recovery Month
It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the ...
In Milwaukee, a Recovery Community Event Highlights Harm Reduction
On August 31, I spent time with people on the frontlines of the overdose ...
Drug Courts Don’t Just Force People Into Treatment. They Deny Us, Too.
Standing in the courtroom as I awaited sentencing, the light tapping of the stenographer ...
A Prison Breakup Tested My Meth Recovery. Alcohol Helped Me Keep It.
I met Paul in 2018, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. I was an ...
