Ruth A. Potee, MD

Books and Articles

Dr. Potee recommends a number of articles, books, and podcasts to anyone interested in addiction and treatment.

Trauma

How active shooter drills in schools are traumatizing our children

Brian Malte

merlin_145795194_b54eeaf4-c091-4d39-a73b-57f99b0b1e6c-superJumbo.jpg — This City’s Overdose Deaths Have Plunged. Can Others Learn From It?

Abby Goodnough

Middle school tackles everybody's trauma; result is calmer, happier kids, teachers and big drop in suspensions

Laurie udesky

Addiction doc says: It’s not the drugs. It’s the ACEs…adverse childhood experiences.

Jane ellen stevens

Screen Shot 2019-08-20 at 7.47.15 AM.png — The Ten Books That Changed My Life - Healing ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Building Resilience

teri wellbrock

Methadone and Buprenorphine

The Next Stage of Buprenorphine Care for Opioid Use Disorder

Stephen Martin, Lisa Chiodo, Jordon Bosse, and Amanda Wilson

Time to Change the Way We Approach Opioid Use Disorder: A Challenge to the Status Quo

Kathryn Hawk and Gail D’Onofrio

Methadone Matters: What the United States Can Learn
from the Global Effort to Treat Opioid Addiction

S. L. Calcaterra, P. Bach, A. Chadi, N. Chadi, S. D. Kimmel, K. L. Morford, P. Roy, and J. H. Samet

Screen Shot 2019-09-03 at 8.03.32 AM.png — He Wanted to Live, But He Chose to Die—To Access Methadone

Barbara Goodheart

She paid nothing for opioid painkillers. Her addiction treatment costs more than $200 a month.

german lopez

The Next Stage of Buprenorphine Care for Opioid Use Disorder

stephen martin, lisa chiodo, jordon bosse & amanda wilson

There’s a highly successful treatment for opioid addiction. But stigma is holding it back.

German Lopez

If You're Serious, America: Here Are 24 Concrete Policy Steps to Reduce Opioid Addiction and Overdoses

-Phillip Smith

Screen Shot 2018-01-03 at 8.04.06 PM.png — Is the $35 Billion Rehab Industry Ready for a Disruption?

MANDY STADTMILLER

Methadone in Primary Care — One Small Step for Congress, One Giant Leap for Addiction Treatment

Jeffrey H. Samet, Michael Botticelli, and Monica Bharel

160424152457-11-buprenorphine-dangerous-painkillers-super-tease.jpg — Time to Change the Way We Approach Opioid Use Disorder: A Challenge to the Status Quo

kathryn hawk & Gail d’onofrio

cf94b2a5085c46a0b0c5c190be72657b-cf94b2a5085c46a0b0c5c190be72657b-0.jpg — Keeping every option on opioid treatment

boston globe editorial

fmx_opioids_panel920.jpg.daijpg.420.jpg — Panel: Buprenorphine 'Can Give Patients Their Lives Back'

American Academy of Family physicians

Screen Shot 2017-09-16 at 11.17.48 PM.png — Struggling With Addiction in an Opioid ‘Treatment Desert’

Brian Rinker

Cannabis

Marijuana Damages Young Brains

Kenneth Davis & Mary Jeanne Kreek

Association between medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality has reversed over time

chelsea Shovera, Corey Davis, Sanford Gordon, & Keith Humphreys

Screen Shot 2018-01-03 at 8.10.43 PM.png — The Real Dangers of Marijuana

Jonathan P. Caulkins

Pot, e-cigarettes harmful to teen brains, despite growing use, doctor tells crowd at St. John’s High School

Susan Spencer

GettyImages_1015542022.0.jpg — Prescription CBD Is Available,
But Are We Ready to Use It?

THE CARLAT REPORT: PSYCHIATRY

Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?

malcolm gladwell

What Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know

Alex Berenson

10 Things We Know (As In, Actually Have Published Evidence For) About Cannabis And Health

Caitlin Dow

Books

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

David Scheff

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Counters with Addiction

gabor mate, m.d.

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

David Sheff

Unbroken Brain

maia szalavitz

‘Dopesick’ Traces the Opioid Crisis, From Beginning to Blow Up

Jennifer Szalai

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann hari

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

410ucRU2j4L._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg — If You Love Me: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction

Maureen cavanagh

gettyimages-167930173_custom-90b67680dd548190c6dc4f7de25b59eab87df93f-s1500-c85.jpg — In 'Hey, Kiddo,' Jarrett Krosoczka Sketches Childhood, A Mom's Addiction

Audie cornish

Loving Lions: A guide for families struggling with addiction

Michael J. Wilson jr.

merlin_143683404_3671cc57-e3e4-4619-a104-d0d4df8ee17a-superJumbo.jpg — A Graphic Novel Aimed at Young Adults Takes a Personal Look at the Opioid Crisis

George Gene Gustines

ADHD and Addiction

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance
Abuse

Elizabeth Harstad, FAAP, Sharon Levy, and COMMITTEE ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE

The Complicated Relationship Between Attention Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders

Courtney A. Zulauf, Susan E. Sprich, Steven A. Safren, and Steven A. Safren,

Physiology of Addiction

NOVA’s Addiction

pbs & wgby

Promising New Treatments for Opioid-Dependent Babies

elizabeth brico

Alcohol

A Toast to Raising Alcohol Taxes

Kirk Semple & Adam Westbrook

merlin_153925392_c2dd519b-4973-49a7-b260-4507b8f772d6-superJumbo.jpg — The Patriarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous

holly whitaker

Sobering Up: In An Alcohol-Soaked Nation, More Seek Booze-Free Social Spaces

Laura Ungar & Jayne O’Donnell

Screen Shot 2018-01-03 at 8.00.02 PM.png — The case for setting a minimum price on alcohol

German Lopez

HipSobriety, an addiction site, blog and podcast for women

Major Study of Drinking Will Be Shut Down

Roni Caryn Rabin

A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism

ed yong

The Opioid Epidemic

Screen Shot 2020-02-16 at 12.56.13 PM.png — We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.

german lopez

Death, made in Mexico: Traffickers embrace fentanyl

KATE LINTHICUM

Opioid Addiction: Advice for Parents

Laura King

Screen Shot 2019-10-24 at 7.25.04 PM.png — She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died.

german lopez

In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing

Abby Goodnough

Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 6.58.24 AM.png — Here’s How One Small Town Beat The Opioid Epidemic

dan vergano

naloxone_overdose_reversal_narcan_opioids_heroin_od.jpg — A Pitiful Sanctuary

jessie gaeta

Hooked: How So Many Vermonters Got Addicted to Opioids

kate o’neil

Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 6.56.23 AM.png — The opioid epidemic is increasingly killing black Americans. Baltimore is ground zero.

German lopez

Separate, Unequal and Overlooked

joseph p. williams

Screen Shot 2019-06-17 at 8.15.03 PM.png — Lessons from Scott County — Progress or Paralysis
on Harm Reduction?

Sanjay Kishore, Margaret Hayden, M.Phil., and Josiah Rich

Endless Addiction

Jack shuler

Opioid crisis.jpg — ‘Become My Mom Again’: What It’s Like to Grow Up Amid the Opioid Crisis

dan levin

Radio Boston Special Hour: Opioid Epidemic

Deborah Becker, Eve Zuckoff, Jamie Bologna, Paris Alston, & Walter Wuthmann

12 million pills and 700 deaths: How a few pill mills helped fan the U.S. opioid inferno

DEL QUENTIN WILBEr

Can This Small Town Lead America in Fighting the Opioid Crisis?

Mattea Kramer

“Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs”

julia lurie

Seven Countries That Beat an Overdose Crisis

Kenneth Anderson & April Smith

Obama officials failed to focus as fentanyl burned its way across America

Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz & Katie Zezima

Screen Shot 2017-07-23 at 1.31.58 PM.png — My Turn/Potee: Missing mark on addiction

Ruth Potee

East Bay doctor brings opioid addiction treatment to the streets

HOLLY J. MCDEDE

Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 1.45.11 PM.png — Philadelphia, a City Stalked by Overdoses, Fights Back

Tina Rosenberg

Faces of an Epidemic

The New Yorker

Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants

Nabarun Dasgupta, Leo Beletsky, and Daniel Ciccarone

Hidden in Plain Sight

powertotheparent.org

merlin_138344703_b93e9581-28a4-4ac0-9071-202699a128da-articleLarge.jpg — Treat Addiction Like Cancer

laura hilgers

A Dying Town

Sarah Brown, Karin Fischer

Screen Shot 2018-01-03 at 8.21.19 PM.png — The Family That Built an Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

Screen Shot 2018-01-03 at 8.13.14 PM.png — From Teddy Roosevelt to Trump: How drug companies triggered an opioid crisis a century ago

Nick Miroff

A primer on fentanyl(s)

mark kleiman

STAT forecast: Opioids could kill nearly 500,000 Americans in the next decade

-max blau

How to Recover After Relapse

Steven c. hayes

Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 1.47.00 PM.png — The Poison We Pick

Andrew Sullivan

Screen Shot 2017-09-16 at 11.15.06 PM.png — Seven Days of Heroin

Cincinnati Enquirer

Pain

merlin_151659774_9ce7fcc2-28b2-470e-b625-721e8abda4e0-jumbo.jpg — Good News: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The Bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say.

Jan Hoffman and Abby Goodnough

Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 1.51.08 PM.png — After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea

Firoozeh Dumas

America Experiences More Pain Than Other Countries

Olga Khazan

Neat, Plausible, and Generally Wrong:
A Response to the CDC Recommendations for Chronic Opioid Use

- Stephen Martin, Ruth Potee, Andrew Lazris

Treatment in Correctional Facilities

In Reversal, Counties and States Help Inmates Keep Medicaid

max blau

When Going to
Jail Means Giving
Up The Meds That
Saved Your Life

BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL

Screen Shot 2019-04-27 at 6.53.41 AM.png — Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

Rachel Kushner

gavel-2456-00c1bad8d8a7cb7de3076abac3205a8e@1x.jpg — Essex County vs. ACLU: Pesce

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

Public Safety Through Treatment: A New Direction for County Corrections

levin schwartz

Screen Shot 2017-09-25 at 10.12.32 PM.png — Case Asks If It's Constitutional To Require Someone On Probation To Remain Drug-Free

Deborah Becker

Screen Shot 2019-01-06 at 8.58.54 PM.png — Treatment at the Franklin County House of Corrections, supervised by Dr. Potee

CNN

Adolescent Brain Development

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

Emma young