In 2014, Robin McIntosh and Lisa McLaughlin were tired of watching friends fall through the cracks of traditional addiction treatments. Finding that was still a slog endless phone numbers and Google searches, a battle with insurance companies, or a number on a waitlist. Enter Workit Health.
This summer, San Francisco is on track to open two supervised injection sites that will serve around 22,000 people in the Bay Area. These sites were unanimously voted for by the local Health Commission, whose ultimate goal is to equip these facilities with clean needles, medical staff trained in responding to overdose or other medical emergencies, and resources for people who want treatment: all in order to help end the opioid epidemic.
I caught up with Tracey Helton Mitchell, recovering heroin addict and author of The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin, to talk about her work in harm reduction, her book, and how she stays sober today.
The hybrid, online/offline addiction care company Workit Health is dedicated to rigorous standards of social impact performance, ethical and sustainable business practices, as well as accountability and transparency in addiction treatment solutions.
Instead of endlessly arguing with Narcotics Anonymous about medication-assisted treatment being clean, why don't we focus on building up a community of safe support groups for those on medication-assisted treatment?
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