The last time I gave myself an injection, the needle held heroin. Now, two decades…
Amidst all the controversy (and seemingly endless efforts at repeal), President Obama’s 2008 healthcare act…
I don’t want to lose these last 20 pounds, because I’m scared of the attention,…
The American Medical Association (A.M.A.) has classified alcoholism as a disease for almost four generations.…
Between the Harms Reduction community, the SMART Recovery® community, and Alcoholics Anonymous, pharmacology as a…
Back when I did cocaine, I believed that becoming a coke whore required some finessing…
Statistics don’t lie: co-occurring mental disorders and addiction – also called dual diagnosis – go hand in…
When I was injecting drugs back in the mid-1980s, several sneaky killers were haunting addicts. We…
