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Scumbag: the stigma of overdose

October 22, 2020February 28, 2022 ~ Dr David McCartney

The mention of Philip Seymour Hoffman in Jason Schwartz's blog post yesterday provoked a memory. Thomas McLellan, a prominent US addiction researcher and policy advisor, lost his son to an overdose in 2008. He wrote a piece  in the Huffington Post a few years ago which has stuck with me. A journalist who had interviewed him referred … Continue reading Scumbag: the stigma of overdose

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