The Morphine Maintenance Movement

Men line up outside the doors of the New York Narcotic Clinic in 1919 Between 1919 and 1923, clinics provided legal access to narcotics to treat addiction In 1923, Oscar Dowling brought a serious charge against a doctor in Shreveport, Louisiana. Like a headline we'd recognize today, he claimed the doctor prescribed, “indiscriminately … of … Continue reading The Morphine Maintenance Movement

Language, social justice, access to care, symbolic capital, and recovery advocacy

(source: cultural iceberg from lcw) Many times over the years I've expressed frustration with the field's emphasis on language while it's not clear to me that a whole lot of progress has been made in access to recovery-oriented care of adequate quality, intensity, and duration. (See here, here, here, here, and here.) I just finished … Continue reading Language, social justice, access to care, symbolic capital, and recovery advocacy