A Different Dose of Drug Education
A new curriculum encourages high schoolers to abstain from substance use but acknowledges not all
Operation Clean Recovery
The Challenge of Harm Reduction
Changing Attitudes Toward Addiction Treatment By Andrew Tatarsky In our first session, Peter, a successful lawyer,
ONE BOAT: THE MYTH OF NORMALCY
By Dr. Gabor Maté 10 October 2019 Image: Gestation by Rae Maté As a physician I have
Blame broken policies, not people who use drugs
Reframing the Blame for the War on Drugs END THE DRUG WAR By Louise Vincent
Why Rehab Fails
The dogma of AA has taken over By Sacha Z. Scoblic My favorite two sentences in
1. Why It Doesn’t Make Sense To Call Addiction A “Disease”
Stanton Peele, Ph.D., and Archie Brodsky with Mary Arnold (1992), The Truth About Addiction and Recovery.
Stop teaching drug abstinence: Just say no to the era of ‘just say no’
By SASHA SIMON NEW YORK DAILY NEWSOCT 14, 2019 | 5:00 AM At this time 30 years ago,
MOST OF US STILL DON’T GET IT: ADDICTION IS A LEARNING DISORDER
Addiction is not about our brains being “hijacked” by drugs or experiences—it’s about learned patterns
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You How to Recover
Recovery means ‘a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.’ This is
Why it’s not ‘enabling’ to make drug use safer
Opposing needle exchanges and insisting people with addiction must hit “rock bottom” flies in the
A Safe Place to Use Drugs: Lessons from Europe’s Supervised Consumption Sites
By Tessie Castillo 07/24/19 “People are always against harm reduction programs at first. But once they see
