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Canada Province Decriminalizing Hard Drugs

IT WILL SAVE LIVES – Jan. 31, 2023 - Sellers and traffickers of hard drugs, however, will continue to face criminal prosecution during the three-year pilot project. “The situation has never been more urgent,... Read More...

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SAMHSA’s Methadone Reforms Toothless

LIKE ALWAYS – Jan. 12, 2023 - SAMHSA’s new proposals are also geared to help “those who reside far from an OTP or who lack access to reliable transportation to receive treatment … care for loved ones and... Read More...

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Heroin Nasal Spray Increases Harm Reduction Options

LENNY BRUCE WOULD HAVE APPROVED – Jan. 17, 2023 - “You don’t have the same feeling—no rush, the same high as you get from injecting,” Dr. Vogel told Filter. And some people who don’t want to inject nonetheless... Read More...

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Hospitals Use Storytelling to Reduce Stigma Toward Addicts

ONCE UPON A TIME... – Jan. 6, 2023 - The power of story to eliminate stigma! Smith’s negative experiences in health care settings led her on the path to becoming an occupational therapist. She hopes to help peo... Read More...

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Integrative Life Network Expands into New Mexico with Acquisition of Shadow Mountain Recovery Centers

ALL THE RIGHT MOVES – Jan. 3, 2023 - Nashville, Tennessee-based Integrative Life Network gains a new state market through the deal. It also extends its “evidence-based trauma-resolution modalities” to Shadow Mo... Read More...

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Meet 25 Heroes Saving Lives Amid the Overdose Crisis

VIDEO – POLICIES MATTER! – Jan. 5, 2023 - “What we need to see happen is continued physician prescribing of naloxone, but also removing the barriers physicians, emergency departments and harm-reduction organizations... Read More...

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Our Governments Are Addicted to Addiction

TAXES TRUMP QUITTING – Dec. 17, 2022 - Alcohol is one of the five most addictive substances according to many studies. Other drugs that typically make the inglorious list are heroin, cocaine, nicotine an... Read More...

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Jail Helps Inmates with Addiction Reduce the Recidivism

VIDEO – THERE SHOULD BE MORE LIKE IT – Dec. 12, 2022 - It’s estimated that up to 65% of the U.S. prison population has an active substance use disorder. When these inmates are released, studies have show... Read More...

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Parents, You Need Narcan

CORN FLAKES, MILK & NARCAN – Dec. 4, 2022 - But after a minute, she returned to the bedroom. The noises he was making were disconcerting. And when she shook him, he didn’t respond. Kyle was not asleep. He h... Read More...

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Addiction and Stigmatizing Language

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME STILL HAS THORNS – Nov. 29, 2022 - When our clients use these words to identify themselves or their behaviors, we typically pause the conversation to explore what they mean becau... Read More...

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FDA Authorizes Overdose-Reversing Medicines for Over-the-Counter Sale

UN-DRUG STORE – Nov. 15, 2022 - Nationwide, other solutions to reduce overdose deaths are being tested at the state and local levels. In late 2021, New York City opened the country’s first legal supervis... Read More...

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Can Safe Injection Sites Reduce New York Deaths?

DO SEAT BELTS SAVE LIVES? – Nov. 1, 2022 - The record achieved by OnPoint NYC, the nonprofit agency that runs the two supervised narcotics consumption sites in New York City, is being cited by advocates who con... Read More...

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Americans’ Word Choices Are Part of the Problem

A ROSE IS ROSE IS A ROSE – Oct. 26, 2022 - The terms, of course, mean functionally the same thing. But in the field of addiction medicine, the question presents something of a crisis. Even as drugs and alcohol ... Read More...

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Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless

EXERCISE THIS! – Oct. 14, 2022 - The film repeatedly portrays Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as beset by “skyrocketing crime and violent attacks” and repeatedly characterizes the city’s homeless populatio... Read More...

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Commentary: Harm Reduction and the Proletariat

STOP THE MADNESS – Oct. 13, 2022 - Now opium derivatives, like heroin, are once again the actual opium of the people. People use heroin and fentanyl analogues to escape oppression temporarily. Black Pant... Read More...

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Overdose Prevention Scheme Gives Users Shopping Vouchers

VIDEO – BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Oct. 5, 2022 - One of the voucher recipients is Kevin Whittaker, 44. He’s been using class-A drugs since his late 30s. He said: “I’ll see what shop I’m passing at the time an... Read More...

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Hospitals have specialists on call for lots of disorders – but not addiction

DUH, GOOD IDEA, YA THINK? – Sept. 30, 2022 - At many hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country, Marie would likely have been discharged anyway, while still in the pain of withdrawal. Perhaps she would l... Read More...

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Big Drop Seen in Treatment Admissions During Pandemic

THERE’S ALWAYS AA and HARM REDUCTION – Sept. 26, 2022 - For the study, his team looked at admissions for substance use disorder treatment between 2017 and 2019, the years just before the pandemic, and du... Read More...

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Treatment Center’s Push to Save Lives With Methadone

BUT HARD TO GET? – Sept. 20, 2022 - “I was so close to death, on my death bed from endocarditis, from fentanyl, that had I not made the move I did, I would be dead today,” Detzel said. “So it was life or... Read More...

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Controversial Harm Reduction Strategies Slow Drug Deaths

AUDIO – GIVE AND LET LIVE – Sept. 15, 2022 - Yeah. Addiction care has gotten better in the U.S. - better therapies, better medications. But getting that kind of quality treatment is still super hard in most of ... Read More...

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Why Governor Newsom Must Pass SB999 by Joan Borsten

AND HOW YOU CAN HELP – Aug. 25, 2022 - Back in the day, when my husband Oleg Vidov and I owned Malibu Beach Recovery Center (“MBRC”)we, like others in the addiction community were “stalked” by Dr. Timothy J... Read More...

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Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes Drug-Injection Sites in California

NO CLEAN NEEDLES FOR YOU – Aug. 22, 2022 - Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation on Monday that would have allowed some California cities to open supervised drug-injection sites as part of a pilot program... Read More...

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Harm Reduction Gets a Naloxone of Its Own

OFF BRAND OFF HEROIN – Aug. 1, 2022 - The naloxone itself is the same as what Hikma already manufactures, but has its own National Drug Code designating it as a new product with the FDA. Remedy Alliance is the ... Read More...

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Officials Push for Gov. Newsom to Approve Safe Consumption Sites

VIDEO – TIME FOR DEATH REDUCTION – Aug. 10, 2022 - People would be able to bring drugs into these sites and use them while a trained supervisor monitors them for symptoms of overdose. These supervisors w... Read More...

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Dee Taylor-John Celebrating 5 Years Advocates for Education, Healing

VIDEO – WOUNDED HEALER AT WORK – July 29, 2022 - Harm reduction plays a major role in supporting community members experiencing a substance use disorder, said Brandon-based Solange Machado, network co-or... Read More...

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Maine Students Want To End Stigma With New Series

VIDEO – NEVER STOP TRYING – June 8, 2022 - “I think everybody should learn from this because substance use is a very important topic. We want to make sure that people understand how this not only affects them p... Read More...

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British Columbia To Decriminalize Drug Possession

THE SANEST PLACE ON EARTH – June 1, 2022 - “The shocking number of lives lost to the overdose crisis requires bold actions and significant policy change. I have thoroughly reviewed and carefully considered bot... Read More...

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Normalizing Drug Addiction Leads to More Overdoses?

HARM REDUCTION WORKS – June 3, 2022 - Whether it’s the safe-injection sites in Harlem and Brooklyn or the decriminalization of cocaine and opioid possession in British Columbia (announced this week), advocates ... Read More...

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Israel Cason, Founder Of Treatment Program, Dies

AUDIO – OF SUPREME SERVICE – March 13, 2022 - He also joined the Fruit of Islam in the Nation of Islam and worked in its local bakery. But after the death of Elijah Muhammad, he resumed drug use. That lifest... Read More...

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Will There Ever Be a ‘Cure’ for Addiction?

IN OUR DREAMS? – March 7, 2022 - Drug addiction involves changes in the brain, and those changes are in brain circuits that we use for everyday life—for seeking food and shelter, procreating our species, avoidi... Read More...

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