On a night out in the Hollywood hills, Valentina Valentini’s lifelong role-reversal with her mother becomes upended.
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The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
Getting a prescription for a psychiatric drug is pretty easy. Hell, getting prescriptions for multiple psychiatric drugs is pretty easy. Understanding where you stop and the drugs start, and getting off of them when they’re not actually serving you — that’s the hard part.
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Total Depravity: The Origins of the Drug Epidemic in Appalachia Laid Bare
In an excerpt from his essay collection, Australian journalist Richard Cooke reports on the American opioid crisis through the astonished eyes of a foreigner visiting steel and coal country.
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Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale
“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”
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28-Day Rehab Doesn’t Work For Everyone
A February-long timeframe for getting clean may be bogus. It’s the paradigm most used and approved by insurance, yet research shows that “drug users who are treated for fewer than 90 days are no more likely to stay sober than people who don’t go to treatment at all.”
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“All The Best”: Rest Easy, John Prine
I wish you love / And happiness / I guess I wish you / All the best
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Finding a Path in a Broken System
Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.
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High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.
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‘American Horror Story’: The Prison Voices you Don’t Hear from Have the Most to Tell Us
The Montgomery Advertiser interviewed more than two dozen inmates in the Alabama correction system, all of whom report extreme routine violence and “unhinged” drug-induced behavior among some inmates — often against elderly and vulnerable members of the prison population. Rehabilitation is impossible, they say with little access to programs, while guards remain indifferent at best, […]
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The Wrong Goodbye
On July 29th, 2018, the family of Frederick Williams said a tearful goodbye as a man was taken off life support following a suspected drug overdose at St. Barnabas, a facility run by Hospice of New York. It wasn’t until the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, as part of routine procedures, ran fingerprint tests […]
