“This is not about destigmatizing people who use drugs,” Lembke, of the Stanford University School of Medicine, explains. “This is about helping people who have a form of psychopathology that we conceptualize as addiction, so that they can be healthier people and, ultimately, potentially mo...
Sometimes, the injuries were caused by a baseball bat, with shattered bones and bruising as bad as that from a car accident. More often than not, it was a knife. A slash across the forehead or cheek, leaving a scar etched across the face; a machete wound to the jaw, slicing through ...