“Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems.”
addiction and recovery
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Postcard from the (Literal) Edge
In an excerpt from her recovery memoir, Erin Khar recalls the depths of her self-destruction as a heroin addict.
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The Chaos at Condé Nast
Responding to Details editor Dan Peres’s new recovery memoir, Katherine Rosman casts a jaundiced eye upon the lax culture and unquestioned expense accounts at Conde Nast Publications that allowed Peres (and several of his colleagues, who also have tell-alls in the works) to get away with gross acts of self-indulgence and mistreatment of their employees.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism
Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
When Running Toward Yourself Looks Like Running Away
Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.
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Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A personal essay about how a BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Where the Trouble Started
In this personal essay, decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
Where the Trouble Started
Decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.