This article explores the internal and external factors of the stigma of drug use and how it relates to our social under ...
Recovery Vs. Stigma: Can the Surgeon General’s Report on Addiction Create Lasting Change?
A Call to Action: More on how education and public health measures can help eradicate addiction…with some thoughts abo ...
Are We Diseased? The Inconsistencies and Implications of the Disease Model of Addiction
I have spent the last ten years of my life considering what it means to be an addict and what it means to have the disea ...
Racism and Substance Use: The Systematic Epidemic of Addiction
A fresh look into the responsibility that society plays in how people use drugs and, more importantly, how people find r ...
Unmanageability: A.A.’s Greatest Contribution to Addiction Treatment
A call to treat people where they are at. Are you ready to look at addiction from another angle? How Step 1 can influenc ...
Mourning an addict’s death in the midst of stigma
The opioid and opiate epidemic is taking lives at an alarming rate. How can those mourning a loss cope? Suggestions here ...
Why a person gets addicted to drugs: The humanness of addiction
Holly Parker, Ph.D. places addiction in a larger human context, calling for compassion, understanding, and support. Her ...
The principles of A.A. & N.A.: Is total abstinence helping or hurting addicts?
12 step support groups believe that total abstinence is the only means to complete recovery. But, can this notion be mor ...
Rehabilitate, Don’t Incarcerate
A look at why we should consider rehabilitation for drug users. Addiction treatment works! ...
Why is addiction a brain disease?
A look at the modern research of the brain as related to addiction from contributor and neuroscientist, Derek Simon, PhD ...