Tag: stigma

    How Can We Improve COVID Vaccine Access for People Who Use Drugs?

    Millions of Americans are happy to finally be venturing out of their quarantine cocoons, ...

    Can the Pandemic Usher in a New Age of Harm Reduction Awareness? 

    While still suffering the toll of a deadly global virus, we begin the delicate ...

    Drug Use Is Perfectly Compatible With Good Parenting

    Many of us are parenting while using drugs. Sometimes with a single drink at ...

    In Nigeria, a Young Generation Finds Its Way Past Myths About Drug Use

    In the late 2000s, Nigeria witnessed a surge in various kinds of drug use. ...

    What It’s Like to Be “Out” as a Person Who Uses Heroin

    In May 2019 Louise Vincent, executive director of the Urban Survivors Union, urged privileged ...

    The Drug War’s “Science-Based” Training on “Dopers and Parasites”

    A federally funded training program for law enforcement and other students offers a course ...

    The Real Harms of Abusive, Stigmatizing Language in Addiction Treatment

    Ironically, the conversation that spurred a peer-support specialist at a buprenorphine program to yell ...