Analysis, lived experience, and ethical perspective on addiction, mental health,
and recovery, grounded in real-world practice and systems-level thinking.
Patients who “successfully” completed inpatient detoxification were more likely than other patients to have died within a year. The deaths from overdose in the group of patients who had completed treatment are counterintuitive and illogical, unless they derive from loss of tolerance and consequent unpredictability of resumed drug use. - National Institutes of Health (NIH), September 2022 As a mom who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning, it has been frustrating to me that the f
