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“I Am Not an Addict”⁠—What Should “Recovery” Mean in 2019? My name is Adi, and despite my years of struggling with m**h addiction, I am not an “addict.” I’m a ...

In the original spirit of harm reduction, here's how activists are driving progress⁠—not waiting for it⁠—with SCS, he**in buyers clubs, drug checking and more.

"“We’ve been left to fend for ourselves," says one member of an illicit he**in buyers club. "We just have to break the law and hope they follow.”

Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement. ...

"So how realistic is it to expect daily smokers to quit cold turkey, while simultaneously addressing other addictions and the mental health issues that may have led them to use ni****ne in the first place?"

Man Who Died of OD Was Allegedly “Kicked Out of Treatment for Smoking” I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to using he**in in early 2017. Feeling ...

"It’s a level of accessibility that will sound almost unimaginably helpful to anyone used to organizing their life around restricted clinic hours."

What Can We Learn From the Nation’s First 24/7 Methadone Clinic? In October 2017, Community Medical Services (CMS), an Arizona-based addiction treatment provider, opened America’s first medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic that ...