When your child was born, you likely vowed that you'd do anything to keep him safe—even give up your own life. It's a parent's duty to protect her child, but that duty changes and evolves as your ...

Many years ago, not long after I discovered that my daughter was addicted to heroin, I joined a support group for families of people with substance use disorder. I was desperately looking for ways to ...

Upon reading Debbie Kelly’s article about the expansion of the “sit-lie” ordinance, once again, I noticed that “the homeless” were referred to as a homogeneous group. This gives the reader the ...

Harm reduction is controversial — and in the wake of a legislator’s bill to ban needle exchange programs, debate has been swirling over the practice. The idea of harm reduction is to keep people safe ...