The CEO and founder of Samad’s House, an organization that promotes recovery and harm reduction, answers questions about substance disorders.

Judith Grisel, Ph.D., an addiction expert, recounts her first taste of alcohol—drinking wine at the age of 13—in a way that could describe any teenager’s experience. “I felt as Eve should have after ...

Prevalent policies such as “housing first” and “harm reduction,” while well-intended, do not appear to be solving the problem. In some cases, these policies even enable behaviors such as drug ...

Mary started drinking regularly in the early nineties, when she was thirteen. Her father had recently married a Danish woman and moved the family to Denmark, which has one of the highest teen-drinking ...