In this talk, Dr. Roberts discusses local political protest movements for addiction treatment in the 1960s and 1970s. Radical Recovery movements framed the social problem of drug use within a (geo)political and economic critique of capital and therefore presented an early challenge to the biomedicalization of addiction. Unfortunately, in their privileging of abstinence, these movements also set the stage for popular ethnic-based resistance to harm reduction policies such as specific uses of methadone and syringe exchange.