Tag: treatment
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 ...
Harm Reduction Among the Casualties of GOP Senate Walkout in Oregon
Republican Senators in Oregon are staging a “walkout” from the Democrat-controlled state legislature. The ...
Teenagers Pathologized by Traditional Addiction Treatment
When Alice* was 12 years old, her mother discovered some diary entries she had ...
