She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet! And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.
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This Is What It’s Like Waking Up During Surgery
Mixing and matching potent drugs to alter consciousness and eliminate pain is a delicate medical art, and one that doesn’t work equally well on everyone — but because the same drugs that knock you out also impede memory formation, you might never know.
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Motherhood on the Line
Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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This Week In Books: A ‘Melancholia’ or ‘Take Shelter’ Situation
I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!
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When Your Doctor is Also an Opioid Addict
How one doctor beat his addiction to start helping members of his West Virginia community to do the same.
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Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
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Grandiose and Claustrophobic: ‘Prozac Nation’ Turns 25
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s bestseller is deeply rooted in a specific, Gen-X cultural moment. Can it still speak to us in 2019?
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How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War
“If you want to know what happens to a country that has opened itself entirely to Facebook, look to the Philippines.”
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The Mobster in Our Midst
John Franzese, Jr. was an up-and-coming gangster, then a drug addict, then a rat who helped send his own father to prison, and finally “Mat Pazzarelli” — his witness protection name. Now he’s rebuilt his life, is out of witness protection and has one thing left to do — go see his dad.
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Nic and David Sheff on ‘Beautiful Boy’ and Telling Addiction Stories Responsibly
Nic and his father David Sheff’s memoirs about grappling with Nic’s addiction are the basis for the new movie ‘Beautiful Boy.’ It was important to them that the movie communicate what addiction really is — an illness.
