Tag: treatment
Oklahoma Reservation Ruling Is an Opening for Harm Reduction
Hardline Oklahoma prosecutors have received bad news about their capacity to force people who ...
Kentucky Challenge to “Casey’s Law” Strikes Against Involuntary Commitment
One of the nation’s oldest involuntary commitment laws designed specifically to target people who ...
Joe Biden’s Unwelcome Plan to Expand Coerced Treatment and Drug Courts
Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released his “Plan for Black America” on May ...
COVID-19 Is Especially Devastating for Black and Brown Americans
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its accompanying economic downturn is disproportionately affecting Black ...
Does a “Dialectical Abstinence” Program Qualify as Harm Reduction?
I first heard the term “dialectical abstinence” in the summer of 2019, several weeks ...
A San Francisco Man Is Currently in Jail for Eating a Cookie in Rehab
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Michael Begert is probably feeling lucky that he is ...
My Personal Journey Into Alcohol Harm Reduction
I first realized I had a problem with drinking when I was a year ...
Witnessed Urine Screens in Drug Treatment: Humiliating and Harmful
My heart drummed in time to my racing thoughts, which repeated an increasingly urgent ...
Why the Curious Story of William S. Burroughs’ Heroin “Cure” Still Matters
At the time I took the apomorphine cure I had no claims to call ...
