Nurses & Doctors Hate People Who Use Drugs

Byron Wood
Nov 3 · 5 min read

I graduated from nursing school and became a Registered Nurse in 2009.

In the 2.5 year bachelor of nursing program that I attended, we only spent about one week studying mental illness and only a few days learning about addiction. I had an excellent professor who taught us the importance of overdose prevention sites, harm reduction practices, and opiate agonist treatments. But most…

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