Addiction and Recovery

Dave Chappelle at Punchline Comedy Club

No Use for a Name, Polyphonic Spree, Cowboy Junkies -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Tuesday, July 17

Junkie Shooting Gallery Idea Gains Momentum In SF

TiVo'd CSI Like Crack for the Ladies: New Nielsen TV Ratings

Stern Sidekick Artie Lange Is Out Of Rehab And Heading To San Francisco

Drink of the Week: Vignette's Rosé Soda

Conscientious Injectors

The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

Binge-Drinking Rodents' Salvation Is Menstrual Drug -- Can Humans Be Far Behind?

At last he can get the help he needs. Perhaps you're next. Articles about menstruation, alcoholism, or drunken mice are not usually high on anyone's wish list -- but, combine all three and you've got a hell of a story. A paper published late last month by researchers at U.C. San Francisco's Ernest G ... More >>

Cold Turkey

New law axes disability benefits for alcoholics, addicts; advocates fear homelessness upsurge

Gay porn star Michael Brandon vows comeback

New law axes disability benefits for alcoholics, addicts; advocates fear homelessness upsurge

Salvation for Drunk Punks

There is hope for you after all, and without bringing God into it.

SF Weekly Letters

There is hope for you after all, and without bringing God into it.

Homeless SF State students struggle to stay in school and stay loaded

There is hope for you after all, and without bringing God into it.

The Tennis Ball Diaries

There is hope for you after all, and without bringing God into it.

Thank You For Being a Freak

There is hope for you after all, and without bringing God into it.

Don't Know Smack

Down from the mountain, a softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick

Drinking with the cat's meow

Down from the mountain, a softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick

Mama Junkie

A young actress shines as a cokehead mom in the harrowing Down to the Bone

Weight Loss/Smoking Cessation/Substance Abuse

A young actress shines as a cokehead mom in the harrowing Down to the Bone

Cowboy Junkies

One Soul Now

Weight Loss|Smoking Cessation|Substance Abuse

One Soul Now

Elliott Smith R.I.P.

A downward spiral hits its nadir

Project Censored

Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press. Here're some rotten chestnuts we wish the alternative press would quit serving up.

He's Gotta Have It

Local filmmaker Caveh Zahedi's career was waylaid by his addiction to prostitution and porn. Today, his sexual compulsions could be the source of his comeback.

Brown Glass Windows

San Francisco's poet laureate, devorah major, turns out an intelligent, provocative novel about African-American life in the Fillmore District

Getting the Treatment

Proposition 36 is based on a noble idea: substituting drug treatment for prison sentences. But the measure needs practical help.

Best Free Film Acting Class

The Tenderloin Y Group

Broken Fix

In a radical approach, San Francisco is making addiction a health issue rather than a law enforcement imperative. So far, though, treatment on demand has been a costly pipe dream.

Cothran

In a radical approach, San Francisco is making addiction a health issue rather than a law enforcement imperative. So far, though, treatment on demand has been a costly pipe dream.

Letters

In a radical approach, San Francisco is making addiction a health issue rather than a law enforcement imperative. So far, though, treatment on demand has been a costly pipe dream.

Father Knows Bud Didn't Use Heroin

How a false rumor of drug use dogged the life and career of actor Billy Gray

The AIDS Civil War

The promise of a new treatment has opened a painful divide

The Quick Fix

A smack addict tries to become an overnight success

Letters

A smack addict tries to become an overnight success

Matrix's Happy Face

New statistics contradict Jordan's spin on homeless crackdown

A History of Violins

New statistics contradict Jordan's spin on homeless crackdown

U.C. Employees' Picket Line Blocks Out Gavin Newsom

Will HarperIf ever you were looking to keep Gavin Newsom away, scare up a picket line Employees of the University of California vociferously protesting proposed fee hikes and furlough days had an unforeseen consequence on the plans of one Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who may or may not have a Santa Clara U ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Food Ink

Jake Godby's little promise to himself.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mastering the art: At Bay Area Bites, Megan Gordon probes the psychology of kitchen tats. She makes Jake Godby, Richie Nakano, John Stewart, and Chad Newton to bare their forearms, like junkies checking into detox. Na ... More >>

Dirty Thieves put a spell on you

Jake Godby's little promise to himself.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mastering the art: At Bay Area Bites, Megan Gordon probes the psychology of kitchen tats. She makes Jake Godby, Richie Nakano, John Stewart, and Chad Newton to bare their forearms, like junkies checking into detox. Na ... More >>

"Den of Thieves"

Jake Godby's little promise to himself.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mastering the art: At Bay Area Bites, Megan Gordon probes the psychology of kitchen tats. She makes Jake Godby, Richie Nakano, John Stewart, and Chad Newton to bare their forearms, like junkies checking into detox. Na ... More >>

Den of Thieves

Jake Godby's little promise to himself.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mastering the art: At Bay Area Bites, Megan Gordon probes the psychology of kitchen tats. She makes Jake Godby, Richie Nakano, John Stewart, and Chad Newton to bare their forearms, like junkies checking into detox. Na ... More >>

Concert preview: Pete Rock & J. Rocc

Jake Godby's little promise to himself.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mastering the art: At Bay Area Bites, Megan Gordon probes the psychology of kitchen tats. She makes Jake Godby, Richie Nakano, John Stewart, and Chad Newton to bare their forearms, like junkies checking into detox. Na ... More >>

Drunken, Mutant Mice Subject of Intoxicating U.C. San Francisco Study

​A study involving drunken, mutant mice and a DNA sequence researchers cleverly nicknamed "lightweight" may lead to a greater understanding of human alcoholism. According to a paper penned by U.C. San Francisco researchers appearing in the current edition of PLoS Genetics, the "lightweight" mutant ... More >>

New Leaf, LGBT Mental Health Center, Closing Doors

Sadly, New Leaf is being turned over​Exploding costs of health care benefits and leases will force New Leaf -- a 35-year-old San Francisco center serving the LGBT community with mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS services -- to close in October. The center's board of directors announced ... More >>

Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Sadly, New Leaf is being turned over​Exploding costs of health care benefits and leases will force New Leaf -- a 35-year-old San Francisco center serving the LGBT community with mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS services -- to close in October. The center's board of directors announced ... More >>

UCSF Researchers Believe They Have Found a Drug To Cure Alcoholism

Curing Alcoholism ​Leave it to Americans to try to cure alcoholism with a pill. UCSF researchers believe a muscle relaxant already out on the market can drastically reduce the urge to binge drink.Researchers from UCSF's Ernest Gallo Clinic used drunk rats to prove their hypothesis. They studied t ... More >>

Listen, Laugh, Sing, Repeat

Curing Alcoholism ​Leave it to Americans to try to cure alcoholism with a pill. UCSF researchers believe a muscle relaxant already out on the market can drastically reduce the urge to binge drink.Researchers from UCSF's Ernest Gallo Clinic used drunk rats to prove their hypothesis. They studied t ... More >>

OWNing It: We're Addicted to Oprah

OWNCast of "Addicted to Food," a reality series that debuted last night on Oprah's TV network.​Is Oprah your God? Have you made the move to her new home? OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, has kept us all waiting for the original programming it promised. And though Kidnapped by the Kids may not b ... More >>

Dear Dr. Dre, Please Stop Trying to Sell Us Things Other Than Detox

Coming soon to your dad's new car.​Is it greed? Does he need the money? Or does Dr. Dre really not know that the world would much rather receive Detox -- the album he's been promising us since 2004 -- than his endorsement of the speakers in luxurious new Chrysler sedans?For those of you new to Dre ... More >>

Junkie Etiquette Getting Better: Fewer Discarded Syringes in the Tenderloin

Cleaner junkies on the streets of San Francisco ​Tenderloin junkies are apparently leaving cleaning up their mess. According to a new report, drug users are leaving far fewer syringes on the streets, a welcome relief to the street sweepers who end up having to clean them up. However, that's not to ... More >>