Tag: treatment
“It’s Authoritarian”—Harm Reduction Under San Francisco’s Backlash
Harm reduction is under attack in San Francisco. Mayor Daniel Lurie (D), the Board ...
Brazil’s Notorious Drug Rehabs Poised to Treat Children as Young as 12
On May 28, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil passed a ...
HHS Wants Input on Which Kinds of Treatment and Recovery to Fund
The Department of Health and Human Services is asking the public to weigh in ...
Louisiana “Homelessness Court” Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor
On April 28, a Louisiana Senate committee advanced a homelessness criminalization bill brightly titled ...
Partnering With Methadone Clinics “Transforms” Hep C Care, Study Finds
Hepatitis C has a cure. Yet the bloodborne virus causes hundreds of thousands of ...
Federal Bill Would Roll Back Modest Progress on Methadone Access
When it comes to methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, Representative Erin Houchin, a ...
Could Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Make a Comeback?
Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, was the sole remaining facility in the United ...
Bill Would Require the VA to Study and Provide Psychedelic Treatments
A new bipartisan bill would mandate the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish “innovative ...
Beyond the Panic: A Harm Reduction Lens for Teen Drug Use
Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws ...
SF Advances RESET Sobering Center, Over Concerns of Unlawful Detention
San Francisco is moving forward with plans to open a controversial sobering center, despite ...
