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The Dead Are Always Drug-Free: Why An Abstinence-Only Approach Will Never End The Heroin Epidemic

By Drew Gibson on March 29, 2016 • ( 8 )

Heroin is not alcohol. This might seem like a fairly obvious and even ridiculous point to make, but there are so many people in our courts, our governments, our treatment centers and our recovery communities who don’t seem to grasp this… Read More ›

There Are Such Unfortunates: Failing To Deal With Severe Mental Illness in Recovery

By Drew Gibson on October 5, 2015 • ( 2 )

How the hell did I get here is a question that comes about with a fair amount of frequency in the course of an alcoholic or addicted life. Wind up waking up next to someone you’ve never seen before in… Read More ›

Real People, Fake Weed: A Slice of Life High on Spice

By Drew Gibson on June 18, 2014 • ( 3 )

There are few things in this world that feel sketchier than meeting up with a person you’ve never met before in a random gas station parking lot. One of those things happens to be meeting up with a person you’ve… Read More ›