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Thank you to all Addiction Professionals!!! We ARE amazing, too!

This , NAADAC is excited and honored to announce its 2020 NAADAC Award Winners! Read more about this year's recipients at https://bit.ly/3mBQJhd. Watch our Award winners acceptance videos at https://bit.ly/3j1mNch.

Stigma is a version of shaming in my view. If a person is grappling with the impacts of addiction, it seems to me that the 1st job of any caregiver is to demonstrate COMPASSION, not contempt. This is a chronic disease frequently treated as acute. This has to change right here & right now!

Fighting Back against the Stigma of Addiction When health care providers demonize people addicted to drugs or alcohol, it just makes the problem worse

This is no time to relax one's personal protection in public settings.

High Prevalence of Americans Have Conditions Linked to Severe COVID-19 - Clinical Advisor Dr. Razzaghi and colleagues estimated the county-level prevalence of selected conditions associated with severe COVID-19.

Imagine the possibilities of testing children (BEFORE) they go to school in the morning? What a great way to protect families AND get their education so critical in the world today!!!

Let's get the cost down so this is a doable (right here & right now) option pre-vaccine.

Time to Amplify Our Voices Calling for Inexpensive Rapid Home Testing for COVID-19 - HIV and ID Observations Earlier this month, I highlighted how inexpensive rapid home testing for COVID-19 could get us out of this mess faster than a vaccine. To spare you re-reading the whole thing, here are the main points. Imagine a simple test done on a saliva sample placed on a paper strip. Results back in 15 minute...

The Opioid Crisis is alive and real.

Charted: The Spiraling Opioid Epidemic in America Since the 1990s, the opioid crisis has claimed thousands of lives. We visualize how it hit the U.S. in three distinct waves.