Addiction and Recovery: The Importance of Human Connection

From April 2020-2021, 100,306 parents, spouses, siblings, friends, colleagues, and neighbors in the United States died[...]

Reflections on Tribal Primary Care in America

California of the pioneers, peopled by progressivesof campsites with bear lockersof pines and berries of easy cilantro[...]

Health Equity & Reproductive Justice: Transforming Perinatal Care Now

Drug-involved fatal poisonings for 2020 are expected to reach over 100,000 in the United States—a 40% increase from the[...]

Evolving Concepts of Justice and Safety

Criminalizing survival

Rachel stayed. She stayed to survive, and for that the criminal legal system labeled her a[...]

The Original Pandemic: Commercial Tobacco

All mentions of tobacco in this article refer to commercial tobacco and nicotine products and not sacred and[...]

Treating the Opioid Crisis: Current Trends and What’s Next

Throughout the past decade, the U.S. has seen a dramatic shift in addiction medicine research, clinical practice, and[...]

Integrating Addiction Treatment in Primary Care: Training Needs and Novel Approaches

Addiction is a chronic medical condition that carries significantly elevated risk of morbidity and mortality, as the[...]

Situating the Continuum of Overdose Risk in the Social Determinants of Health

The United States remains in the throes of an escalating drug overdose crisis. Data show that overdoses increased yet[...]

Overdose & Harm Reduction in the Time of COVID-19

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States faced an epidemic of drug overdose, topping half a million deaths[...]

COVID-19 and Homelessness in Boston: Thoughts from the Initial Surge

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast health inequities into stark relief, though this hasn’t surprised those of us already[...]