Tracey Mitchell

Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA RAS is an addiction specialist and recovering addict living in the SF Bay Area. She writes about topics related to harm reduction, addiction, and recovery at traceyh415.blogspot.com.

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FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Beating Opiate Addiction With Weed

In the U.S., 46 people die each day from opioid overdose—and that number isn’t doing anything but growing. Could marijuana be what’s missing from addicts’ recovery?

Abby Haglage

MIND-ALTERING

I Detoxed from Heroin in Jail

Drug treatment centers nationwide have all but disappeared, leaving prisons as the catch all for the millions of Americans addicted to opioids. In the absence of medical experts, this isn’t just dangerous—it’s deadly.

Tracey Mitchell