Courtenay Harris Bond, 
Freelance Journalist

Portfolio of Work

I’ve put together a carefully curated selection of my latest and most influential pieces. Read through the samples below and feel free to get in touch to learn more about me and to discuss any projects you may want to send my way.

Getting mental health care can be hard enough. Then comes paying for it.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/getting-mental-health-care-can-be-hard-enough-then-comes-paying-it-20200122.html

The Benefits, and Realities, of Using Medication to Overcome Addiction

I spent a year-and-a-half reporting on the efficacy of using medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the heart of Kensington, Philadelphia, one of the most drug-ravaged neighborhoods in the United States. https://undark.org/2019/01/23/mat-medication-assisted-treatment-addiction/

My Psychedelic Trip Out of Depression

Approximately 70 percent of people who try ketamine for depression say they respond to it. I’m one of them. https://undark.org/2019/07/04/my-psychedelic-trip-out-of-depression/

More Projects

'The kids are crying’: Three-part series chronicles despair, displacement and what DHS plans to do

https://philadelphiaweekly.com/the-kids-are-crying/

Scientists say they can make a vaccine against heroin. It's an uphill battle

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/addiction/Scientists-say-they-can-make-a-vaccine-against-heroin-whats-the-holdup.html?fbclid=IwAR0G9KaHO9eTctkTl5MYWFFc6cHMY_jXKQHJqdB3b0cartrbvB6TEksXJ44

For transgender kids, preventing trauma of going through the wrong puberty

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/public_health/For-transgender-kids-preventing-trauma-of-going-through-the-wrong-puberty.html

Philly-area veterans find that healing 'moral injury' helps with recovery from PTSD, depression, addiction

https://www.inquirer.com/health/moral-injury-veterans-ptsd-philadelphia-va-medical-center-therapy-20200225.html