No Abandonment
For more than two thousand years, physicians have known that opium and its derivatives bind tightly—not only to receptors in the human body, but to lives. The knowledge is ancient; the pattern is predictable.
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Addiction
Verified podcast archive on addiction, hunger, behavior, and recovery.
One Step Forward — Three Steps Back
For three consecutive years, the United States has recorded more than one hundred thousand overdose deaths. That figure is often repeated as a headline number, but it obscures the churn underneath: periods when prevention…
A Responsibility Deferred
America’s overdose crisis now claims over 100,000 lives every year – a staggering human cost that exceeds the toll of car crashes and gun violence. Each death is a son or daughter, a friend…
Make the Map, Do the Work — From Pilot to Policy
Addiction is a human condition expressed through specific lives, neighborhoods, markets, and institutions. Drugs, devices, and behaviors are vehicles; the underlying pattern is the same: relief is discovered, repetition trains attention and routine, alternatives…
Paychecks, Not Punishments — The Shift That Saves Lives
Work sits at the center of stability for individuals and communities. Employment organizes time, supplies income, and provides affiliation.
From Cuffs to Clinic
Justice systems sit at a junction where addiction, public order, and public health meet. The decisions made at first contact, during prosecution, in courtrooms, within custody, and at release can either increase harm or…
Adolescence at Risk
Adolescence and early adulthood represent a developmental window in which vulnerability to addiction increases for reasons grounded in biology, psychology, and social context. The pattern remains consistent with the wider thesis: addiction is a…
Why This Person, Why This Drug?
Addiction can be described most accurately as a human condition rather than as a property of a drug. The drugs and behaviors that become objects of compulsion are diverse, yet the underlying pattern remains…
Pathways That Work
Addiction care functions best when clinical pathways are coherent from first contact through long‑term maintenance. Fragmented systems that separate emergency response from outpatient treatment, or medical care from housing and employment supports, produce predictable…
Recovery Is a System
Recovery functions best as a system, not as a single program or moment of change. It depends on reliable access to care, stable housing, employment pathways, supportive families, effective legal responses, consistent measurement, and…