Tag: treatment
Oregon’s Decrim Funding Has Been a Trial to Implement. Better Is to Come.
On February 1, 2021, Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize ...
WA Ballot Measure to Decriminalize Drugs Has Early Poll Lead
As a signature drive kicks off in Washington State to qualify a drug decriminalization ...
Vulnerable People Are Dying in Unregulated Recovery Houses
Dawn Troutt, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, lost her 38-year-old son to a fentanyl-involved overdose ...
How My Drinking Was Used to Deny Me Treatment for Depression
Five years ago, I called the hotline for adult psychological services at a major ...
One Year on, Oregon Drug Decriminalization Is Boosting Harm Reduction and Housing
February 1 marks the one-year anniversary since Measure 110 took effect in Oregon, decriminalizing ...
Insurers Illegally Denying Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder Benefits
The US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury released a ...
An Opioid Vaccine Is Not the Answer
In 1974, scientists at the University of Chicago immunized a rhesus monkey against morphine. ...
Almost None of NC’s Drug Treatment Grant Recipients Offer Medication
North Carolina’s latest state budget allocated millions of dollars to organizations that will facilitate ...
Court-Ordered Into AA? You Could Use The Satanic Temple Instead.
Two-and-a-half years after a bad relationship left her homeless, and 16 months after Child ...
Philly’s Addiction-Treatment Smoking Ban Ends, Leaving Bitter Taste
The horribly misguided smoking and vaping ban in Philadelphia’s city-funded drug treatment programs, including ...
