Tag: treatment
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 ...
“Opioid Reckoning”: Oral Histories of the Complex Origins of Rehab
Language around addiction has changed so quickly in the past few years that Rose ...
Afghanistan’s “Forever” Drug War Has No End in Sight
“It is time to end the forever war,” declared President Joe Biden. After 20 ...
New Evidence Exposes Harms of Philly’s Smoking Ban in Drug Treatment
“Huge step backwards for recovery, it sucks!” was how one participant in a new ...
