Addiction treatment must bridge neuroscience and humanism.
Understanding craving/relapse as brain-based reduces moral blame.
Stigma isolates; recognition restores.
Research Center (2022), most Americans would not welcome individuals with substance use disorders as neighbors or family
Nyswander’s legacy: inclusion is medicinal.
Clinics inspired by her offer treatment without precondition
The healer crosses into the patient’s world (Luke 19:5).
Care begins not by asking others to become respectable, but by entering their lived reality.
To practice such care affirms that every life is grievable.
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Lost Women of Science (2023), Episodes 1 & 5.
