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What It's Like to Be an Addict – and Homeless
Stagnation, setbacks, missed opportunities, and a glimmer of hope: This is life when you struggle with addiction but are trying to get better.
How I Got Addicted to Fentanyl in My 20s
Max was prescribed synthetic opioids at a time when they were considered safe. Seven years later, he's still dealing with the consequences.
People Who Have Used Drugs Reflect on ‘Euphoria’
“When I saw that episode of Rue breaking things in the house, saying hurtful things to her mom and pushing her, that was just too real.”
Here’s What You Really Need To Know About the UK’s Massive Drug Reform Plan
The UK government is trying to rebuild a drug treatment system it trashed – and setting up a false narrative to demonise drug users.
How to Handle It When a Loved One Relapses After Getting Sober
I’ve been on both sides: as the user, and the loved one staging an intervention. To quote a maxim I often heard at AA, relapse is part of recovery.
Drug Users Are Being Sentenced to Forced Rehab. But Does It Work?
California could be come the latest lab in a nationwide experiment: Instead of sentencing drug users to jail, what if you sentenced them to rehab?
Football Was My Life in Kashmir. Until I Got Addicted to Drugs.
The most militarised zone on earth is luring its youth into a tight grip of addiction.
Very Online Physical Therapists Are Here to Fix Your Broken Pandemic Body
Physical therapists don’t just handle injuries; people with work-from-home back pain are flooding their pages looking for relief.
College Students Are Fighting Addiction Hell During the Pandemic
Campus centres for students recovering from addiction are exploding during COVID.
They Came to This Celebrity Psychiatrist’s Rehab To Heal. It Turned Out To Be a ‘Cult.’
Former patients of a renowned Indian rehab centre allege a chain of cult-like abuse at a facility run by celebrity psychiatrist Yusuf Merchant.
My Life as a Teenage Escort
"I realised I could make more money in sex work than with any degree. But all the money I put in my pocket came at a price: it put me into a crisis."
Drug Dealers Posed as Addicts to Find Clients in Rehab
Dealers offering weed and heroin to recovering addicts has become a common trend around Goa’s rehabs.