Tag: recovery
A Year After I Quit Drugs, the Stigma Still Haunts Me
From the moment I began openly acknowledging my opioid use—often via self-deprecating jokes, at ...
How Deep Does New Jersey’s Anti-Stigma Messaging Really Run?
Counties across the state of New Jersey trumpet their commitment to ending stigma against ...
WA Ballot Measure to Decriminalize Drugs Has Early Poll Lead
As a signature drive kicks off in Washington State to qualify a drug decriminalization ...
Vulnerable People Are Dying in Unregulated Recovery Houses
Dawn Troutt, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, lost her 38-year-old son to a fentanyl-involved overdose ...
Non-Substance Addictions Are Key to Understanding What Drugs Don’t Do
The parents of a 13-year-old middle school student brought their son to a counselor ...
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 ...
Court-Ordered Into AA? You Could Use The Satanic Temple Instead.
Two-and-a-half years after a bad relationship left her homeless, and 16 months after Child ...
What I Wish Someone Had Said to Me When I Started Using Drugs
When I began using drugs, I didn’t have anyone I could safely go to ...
How Key Early Ideas Helped Shape Today’s Harm Reduction Movement
[This article is excerpted from UNDOING DRUGS: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and ...
Harm Reduction Is for Eating Disorders, Too
There must be all kinds of unexplored applications for harm reduction, but the one ...
