Common Questions from the Help-4-Hep Helpline
As a Help-4-Hep counselor, I’ve heard it all. Help-4-Hep is a nationwide, toll-free telephone helpline, focused on answering questions …
Daryl Luster
Help-4-Hep: One Counselor’s Perspective on Peers Supporting Peers
As a peer counselor for Help-4-Hep, a nationwide toll-free telephone helpline for people who have been exposed to or …
Mixed Messages
When we so often hear mixed messages, what is the most important issue to consider, and are we prepared to …
The Power of Music in Healing
Most of us enjoy music, with varying degrees of passion. Personally, it’s an important part of everyday living for me. …
Dealing with Hepatitis C
Once again, you are facing some issues that have affected your level of pain, energy, or interest. Does this …
How Can I Convince You? Managing an Invisible Illness
How can I convince you that I am sick? Do you need a letter from my doctor, or is there …
My Gut Feeling: Nausea & Digestive Issues with Hepatitis C
Have you suffered from nausea and other digestive issues connected to your hep C? I am one of the unlucky …
The Criminalization of Drug Use: Part 3
Read Part 1 here Read Part 2 here Part 3: A Better Path Ahead The stigmatization of …
A New Year
As many of us often do, we take the turn of year as an opportunity to look back on …
One More Time, With Feeling: Long-Term Health Issues After Hepatitis C
Once again, or one more time. However you choose to say it, I get it. After beating hep C years …
Travel and Chronic Illness
Unless you don’t travel at all, you are eventually going to face the challenges of traveling with chronic disease …
Against The Wind
Do you ever feel like you are struggling to move forward? Does it feel like every task (even walking or …
The Criminalization of Drug Use: Part 2
Read Part 1 here Part 2: Marijuana for Medical and Recreational Use With so many jurisdictions legalizing the use …
Here We Go Again: Dealing with Chronic Illnesses
Well, here we go again, with some new health issues. Are my health issues related to my hep C? I …
The Criminalization of Drug Use: Part 1
Part 1: Withholding Access to Pain Management Drugs In my work, an experience has become evident: people are being denied …
Hep C and Drugs
On the topic of drug use (current or past drug), we see some deep divisions in community, and diverse …
It’s My Life To Live
When I write, I draw inspiration from my everyday life, this is no exception. This time, it was something someone …
Encouraging News
We can cure hep C. This is not new information for many of you, but for some, this may …
Giving Up
Is it ever a good idea or time to give up? Accounting for my own dogged determination, my answer is, …
The Company We Keep
“The company we keep”: Another gem from the past, an idiom rarely heard now because it is generally believed to …