David Sheff

David Sheff is the author of Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, and Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction.

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Opinion

How Philip Seymour Hoffman Could Have Been Saved

By David Sheff Feb. 02, 2014

An apparent heroin overdose is a reminder of why we need to move toward evidence-based treatments for addiction

Health & Science

Give Rob Ford Rehab, Not Ridicule

By David Sheff Nov. 20, 2013

Making fun of the “crack-smoking mayor” is easy. As friends and loved ones of addicts know, what’s hard is understanding the causes of their destructive behavior.

Public Health

One Thing Obamacare Can’t Fix: Bad Addiction Treatment

By David Sheff Nov. 13, 2013

Correction appended, March 26, 2014.

After weeks spent offering up increasingly desperate excuses for the glitchy rollout of Obamacare’s insurance exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seemed

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Public Health

Make the Next Drug Czar a Doctor

By David Sheff Aug. 26, 2013

With the current czar making an exit, President Obama has a chance to change the nature of our failed war on drugs