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Don't Call My Dad the "A" Word: Language matters for people seeking help in the battle against addiction

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Clean drug test

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Substance-use disorder

Individual with a substance-use disorder

In recovery; In remission

Negative drug test; Not currently using substances

Positive drug test; Currently using substances

Jessica Hulsey Nickel, president of the Addiction Policy Forum, was one of the first witnesses to testify this year in front of The Christie-White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis and at NIH Director Francis Collins' Opioid Initiative. Robert Weiner is former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and several congressional committees.

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