Drug Addiction

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

Irvine Welsh Visits SF to Read New Novel

SF Gov InAction: These Are Not the Budget Numbers You're Looking For

The excitement stops here. I know ... I know ... that today's the day Gubernatorial Candidate Gavin Newsom releases his budget for San Francisco (a California city he occasionally resides in for campaign purposes). And I know that, when he does, we're all going to die a little. I know. But ... More >>

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

SF Weekly Letters

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

SF Weekly Letters

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

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

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

Snitch

Deanna Johnson testified against a murderer to save her son. But in the projects, truth comes at a price.

The Tennis Ball Diaries

Deanna Johnson testified against a murderer to save her son. But in the projects, truth comes at a price.

Drinking with the cat's meow

Deanna Johnson testified against a murderer to save her son. But in the projects, truth comes at a price.

The Juan Maclean

Less Than Human

General Elektriks

Cliquety Kliqk

Unwritten Law

Here's to the Mourning

Weight Loss/Smoking Cessation/Substance Abuse

Here's to the Mourning

Jimmy Eat World

Futures

Weight Loss|Smoking Cessation|Substance Abuse

Futures

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.

Brown Glass Windows

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

Dr. Bellington's Profession

Brave Brood's doomed heroine shelters a clutch of desperate streetwalkers

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Heartbreaking, autobiographical short stories from J.T. LeRoy

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.

Stage Capsule

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

Unspun

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

Letters

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

Networking

A smack addict tries to become an overnight success

Letters

A smack addict tries to become an overnight success

City of Night

Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.

Spirit of '77

Sin and salvation with Rancid

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

Facebook Posting Gets Pot-Loving Police Dispatcher Fired

A police dispatcher apparently likes both of these things more than her job...​There are so many people whose careers have gone south due to bizarre postings on Facebook that there's even a Facebook page chronicling them. Whether a police dispatcher who stated she was addicted to prescription drug ... More >>

She's No Angel

A police dispatcher apparently likes both of these things more than her job...​There are so many people whose careers have gone south due to bizarre postings on Facebook that there's even a Facebook page chronicling them. Whether a police dispatcher who stated she was addicted to prescription drug ... 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 >>

All Ages

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 >>

Prison Break: Realignment Inmates Enter Rehabilitation in S.F.

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 >>