The Shatterproof Blog

Ensuring Opioid Settlement Funds are spent wisely.

From coast to coast, it's been a great week for addiction policy change.

Within a week I had a prescription for Suboxone and access to support meetings. The doctor’s office called often to check in. I realized that maybe I could hang on.

This will be my fourth Mother’s Day without my son, Jason. I often reflect on the past at this time of year.

Lyndsey felt ashamed, judged, and trapped by the stigma surrounding addiction for 9 long years—and so did we.

Learn the difference between action and awareness this Alcohol Awareness Month. 

Tony always searched for his purpose. Now I know that purpose lives on in me.

I once read that forgiveness is “giving up the hope that the past could be different.”

Turning Pain into Purpose

This could be a big opportunity to get more science-based treatment and prevention programs into our communities—and to save countless lives.

Here's what you need to know about pain management. 

Here's what comes next

Congress has recognized that the public health and economic emergencies created by COVID are making an already dire addiction crisis much worse.

The holidays look very different this year, but I am finding joy in the little things, practicing gratitude, and counting my blessings.

The Core Elements that Are Part of the Standard Practice for Treating Substance Use Disorder