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.
As San Francisco opens a safe injection site, it's time to accept harm reduction as a crucial part of addiction treatment.
'This Is Us' deals with many types of addiction: pain pill addiction, alcohol addiction, and food addiction. But how accurate is the show?
At Workit Clinic, we prescribe buprenorphine/naloxone (commonly known by its most popular brand name, Suboxone) for opiate addiction because quitting cold turkey is tough.
Amanda S. is a Michigan-based Recovery Advocate for medication assisted treatment, substance use disorder, mental health and chronic pain. She is in long term recovery and uses her story to help others.
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?
Struggling with pain pills or heroin? You aren't alone. Take our quiz to see if you might have a problem with opiates.
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