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When peggy night moved into this house we thought it was just a normal place where we could do some acid, s out there is a lot of shooting up going on, some people were using heroin to a point of not being able to trust each other. The work wasnt getting done. We began to lie to each other. Peggy and i took a stand against hard narcotics, we call the house meeting. The house members agreed that we would have no more heroin in the house. Some people found these grubs to groovy to give up, and it ...

Nyswanderweg, a pinky-sized residential street in Hamburg, Germany, is easy to miss. Yet it’s a rare and significant monument to Marie Nyswander.

Medication treatment for heroin addiction has come a long way since its pioneer died. But what would she think of the field today?

In the 1970s Marie Nyswander thought that she had finally found a long-term treatment for heroin addiction, but not everyone agreed—including some of the people she was trying to help

In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist”

A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help—about something else entirely

All addiction treatment should be science-based.

Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, wonders if SAMHSA will make the methadone take-home flexibility program permanent.

Bewley, from a big Dublin Quaker family, tried to bring order to the famously humane and non-punitive ‘British System’ of addiction medicine

Medications for addiction—especially for opioid addiction—save lives.