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  • Stigma Reduction or Style Over Substance?

    The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which, just for the record, is now considered stigmatizing language due to the use of the word “abuse,”…

  • Bias Against Babies

    Bias is defined as “prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be…

  • Whose Safety Is Being Secured?

    Recent headlines have shown wide-ranging ideas about what should happen when those with substance use disorders (SUD) have babies born with unprescribed drugs, including alcohol,…

  • Legal ≠ Harmless

    Somehow along the way, we’ve made a distinction between “hard” drugs and, well, other drugs, as though only “hard” drugs cause problems. We’ve forgotten that…