It took me 10 hours of phone calls, 20 voicemails, 3 chewed fingernails, and many packs of cigarettes before I found a Suboxone provider in my new town. This is the list I wish I had then. When I pulled a “geographic” a few years ago, leaving Portland for my home state of North Dakota,… Continue reading A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Finding a Suboxone Clinic
Tag: harm reduction
Harm Reduction Program Offers Cannabis As Alternative To Hard Drugs
The Canadian program also offers free fentanyl testing strips and naloxone training. A Canadian harm reduction program is hitting the local opioid addiction crisis from a unique angle—by providing cannabis at little to no cost as an alternative to street drugs. The High Hopes Foundation, based in Vancouver, Canada—also home to North America’s first legal… Continue reading Harm Reduction Program Offers Cannabis As Alternative To Hard Drugs
San Francisco Unveils Safe Injection Site Prototype
Alongside accommodations for drug use, the facilities will offer a range of services geared toward giving clients a chance to get well. With the city of San Francisco now closer than ever to opening the nation’s first supervised injection facility (SIF), it unveiled a prototype to show how a real facility will operate. The public… Continue reading San Francisco Unveils Safe Injection Site Prototype
Dopesick: An Interview with Beth Macy
It takes the average user eight years and five to six treatment attempts just to achieve one year of sobriety. And in an era of fentanyl and other even stronger synthetic opioids, many users don’t have eight years. As recently as a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a “silent… Continue reading Dopesick: An Interview with Beth Macy
Safe Injection Sites Get Green Light From California Lawmakers
“I am committed to opening one of these sites here in San Francisco, no matter what it takes, because the status quo is not acceptable,” said Mayor London Breed. Last week, California lawmakers green-lit a bill that would allow safe injection sites in San Francisco as part of a three-year pilot program. The forward-thinking measure,… Continue reading Safe Injection Sites Get Green Light From California Lawmakers
Pawn Stars: The Opioid Edition
If you are at risk for overdose or use needles to shoot up drugs, come see Brandi and she’ll take care of you – no frills, no questions, no judgment. On a cold November morning in 2015, Brandi Tanner and her husband stopped to pick up their 10-year-old niece from her grandmother’s house. “Grandma’s sleeping… Continue reading Pawn Stars: The Opioid Edition
Dan Bigg, The Godfather Of Harm Reduction, Has Passed Away
Bigg, who co-founded the largest community-based naloxone distribution network in the country, was 59 years old. On Tuesday, the harm reduction community lost a godfather. Dan Bigg, co-founder and Executive Director of the Chicago Recovery Alliance, died suddenly at home at 59 years old. Bigg started his journey to harm reduction in the mid-1980s working… Continue reading Dan Bigg, The Godfather Of Harm Reduction, Has Passed Away
Suboxone: A Tool for Recovery
With medication-assisted treatment (MAT), people with opioid addictions are given the chance to rebuild their lives—often from the ashes and debris of drug-induced destruction—without having to fight cravings and withdrawal. Suboxone is a prescription medication that treats opioid addiction. It contains buprenorphine and naloxone, active ingredients that are used to curb cravings and block the… Continue reading Suboxone: A Tool for Recovery
Planned Safe Injection Sites Put On Hold In Canada
Advocates of safe injection sites called the Canadian health minister’s decision to halt the opening of the facilities “horrifying.” A trio of planned safe injection sites in Ontario, Canada have been put on hold while the province’s new health minister conducts a review to determine if such facilities “have merit.” Health Minister Christine Elliott said that… Continue reading Planned Safe Injection Sites Put On Hold In Canada
"Methadone Pope" Dr. Robert Newman Dies At 80
The doctor famously commissioned an unused ferry boat to serve as a temporary methadone clinic when a private clinic shut down in 1972. The “methadone pope” passed away this month, sparking a conversation about his groundbreaking contributions to the worlds of harm reduction and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for substance use disorder. Dr. Robert Newman spent… Continue reading "Methadone Pope" Dr. Robert Newman Dies At 80