The long-awaited final rule revising 42 CFR Part 2—the confidentiality regulation applying to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records—is out. …
Hardline Oklahoma prosecutors have received bad news about their capacity to force people who use drugs into “therapeutic” courts. That…
One of the nation’s oldest involuntary commitment laws designed specifically to target people who use drugs is facing a court…
Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released his “Plan for Black America” on May 4, which discussed some of the…
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its accompanying economic downturn is disproportionately affecting Black and Brown people in the US…
I first heard the term “dialectical abstinence” in the summer of 2019, several weeks into an intensive outpatient program (IoP)…
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Michael Begert is probably feeling lucky that he is not facing reelection for another five…
I first realized I had a problem with drinking when I was a year out of college. I was 21…
My heart drummed in time to my racing thoughts, which repeated an increasingly urgent command. Just. Fucking. Pee. But instead…
At the time I took the apomorphine cure I had no claims to call myself a writer and my creativity…