Best of the Week: April 11–17

COMING UP IN THE FIX// Thai Vomit Therapy * The Science of Work and Reaching Goals * Interview with Hazelden's Dr. Marvin Seppala * 10 Failures of State Drug Testing * Do People Outgrow Sex Addiction? * Chronic Illness in Sobriety *Fear * New Blog: Getting to a Place of Not Caring * PLUS: Other incisive articles

	DRUG WAR// The Emerald Triangle Up In Smoke? Does legalization spell the end for Humboldt County's cannabis culture? By Linda Stansberry
	NALTREXONE// One Pill or Twelve Steps? Who needs AA when you've got naltrexone? Anyone with a screaming void in their core that they've filled with alcohol, of course. By Jodi Sh. Doff
	PRO VOICES// Battling Bias: Tales from an Addiction Psychologist Stigma and stereotypes inside the treatment arena. By Amy J. Colley
	Q&A// The Fix Q&A with Chris Bell, Director of Prescription Thugs The director of Bigger Stronger Faster on his new documentary Prescription Thugs. By Dawn Roberts
	SLIDESHOW// 10 More Addiction Films You Have Probably Never Heard Of From a young Heath Ledger and a younger Gary Oldman to Pure, Smashed and Spun: another dose of The Fix's underrated—but great—movies about addiction. You're welcome. By Regina Walker

 

BEST OF THE QUICK FIX Puerto Rico Sending Hundreds of Drug Addicts to the U.S. U.S. Swim Champ Michael Phelps A 'Changed' Man Since Rehab Ringo Starr Says He Wasted Years in Alcoholic Haze After Beatles Breakup

Smoking Weed While Drinking Makes Users Far More Likely To Drive Drunk Porn-Addicted Mother Provides Weed, Sets Up ‘Naked Twister Party’ For Teen Daughter Nurse Jackie, TV’s Most Honest Depiction of Addiction, Enters Its Final Season

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

Uneducated This week, Amy J. Colley discussed how addicts run into bias from addiction stigma from the very people who are supposed to get them better. Readers shared their struggles in seeking treatment as addicts:

Well, part of the problem is that the education and healthcare systems are set up to separate addiction treatment from mental health treatment--as if they were two entirely unrelated issues instead of problems that most frequently go hand in hand. Therefore many psychologists and psychiatrists have no training in addiction. In my own case, after several months of working with a clinical psychologist on anxiety and relationship issues, I revealed to her that I was addicted to alcohol. She immediately discharged me and told me to seek addiction treatment, but could not even give me a treatment referral as she had no experience or knowledge at all about addiction issues. -MonaLisa1998 MORE »