In June 2024, I spoke with Dr. Steven Pratt, a senior medical director at Magellan Health. He has spent many years treating people with substance use disorders. We talked about the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, often called the ACEs study.
In October 2021, I spoke with David Poses, a writer, speaker, and activist and the author of The Weight of Air. He writes about depression and opioid use from his own life, and when we spoke he had been taking buprenorphine for many years.
In February 2020, I spoke with Stephen Finlay, who managed addiction services in the Surrey region of British Columbia for Lookout Housing and Health Society. Among other programs, he oversaw SafePoint, the second federally sanctioned supervised injection site in Canada.
My family is threatening me with legal action if I don't quit opiates? What can they do? While laws regarding mental health vary from state to state, here in the…