Tag: treatment
When People Ask Harm Reductionists, “What About Treatment?”
“What about treatment?” I’m commonly asked this question by well-intentioned folks when I say ...
The FDA Draft Guidance for Stimulant Use Disorder Medication Is… Decent
One of the reasons we have Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use ...
NIDA Director Calls Abstinence-Only Approach “Catastrophic” for OD Crisis
A top federal health official is offering some pointed critiques of the United States ...
NIDA to Fund Development of New Psychedelics-Based SUD Treatments
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting proposals to develop psychedelics into treatments ...
Seattle Recriminalizes Drug Use, Adds Arrest Alternatives It Won’t Pay For
On September 26, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (D) unveiled his proposed 2024 budget. It ...
A Daughter’s Life and Death, Seen Through a Harm Reduction Lens
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells ...
The Right-Wing Backlash to Harm Reduction in Canada
To harm reductionists in the United States, Canada can sound like a bastion of ...
Accelerated Resolution Therapy Was Transformative for My PTSD
No drugs, no pain, very low cost, and it can break treatment-resistant trauma in ...
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 ...
As Blake Decision Expires, New WA Drug Law Ushers in Two-Tier System
On July 1, as Washington State’s embattled “Blake decision” expires, a new drug possession ...
