The first casualty of America’s opioid epidemic beyond the users themselves? The American family. As mom and dad are nodding out and overdosing in record numbers, the kids are going into an under-funded foster care system struggling to handle the sheer volume of children who need food, shelter, clothing, and above all, stability.
Krista Stevens
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Immoral or Merciful? Canadian Doctors Divided on Medically Assisted Death
Some doctors are struggling with allowing Canadians to die on their own terms.
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How to End a Life
Even though medically assisted death has been legal in Canada for a year, it remains controversial. Although some palliative care doctors — who believe in providing physical and psychological comforts to patients, but not in hastening death — are vehemently opposed to what they view as an immoral act, other doctors are slowly coming to […]
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Roxane Gay on the Final Frontier: Acceptance for Every Female Body
Roxane Gay on her new memoir and on gaining acceptance for the female body in every shape and size.
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Roxane Gay’s New Memoir About Her Weight May Be Her Most Feminist—and Revealing—Act Yet
Marisa Meltzer profiles Roxane Gay as the prolific author prepares to go on tour to support Hunger, a book she calls “by far the hardest book I’ve ever had to write.” In it, Gay reflects on what it’s like to live in a world that does not accommodate her body and how she “turned to […]
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Highway Robbery: How the Port Trucking Industry is Rigged Against Drivers
On how port truckers are the victims of heinous labor practices.
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Rigged
Did you know that your Ralph Lauren polo shirt was driven to the warehouse by an indentured servant? At USA Today, Brett Murphy reports on how port truckers — required to lease their trucks from their companies — are essentially working as indentured servants for pennies (or less) each week as they struggle to drive […]
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Death Doulas to the Rescue?
With the onset of death doulas, no one need die alone.
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Diane Arbus: Describing the Loneliness that Shames Us
Hilton Als on photographer Diane Arbus’ uncanny ability to capture the humanity of her marginalized subjects.
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The Mosul University Library: Reborn From the Ashes
The Mosul University Library, once home to centuries-old books and documents, is rebuilding after ISIS destroyed it.