Tag: drug addiction

In an excerpt from her recovery memoir, Erin Khar recalls the depths of her self-destruction as a heroin addict.

A mother confronts the painful truths of trying to save a son who’s a danger not only to himself, but to the rest of the family as well.

The life-long writer, teacher, and activist believed she could save a piece of land or a species, but after her brother took his life, she questioned her optimism and how to grieve for him and the planet.

After his parents pushed him out of their home, a teenager descended into the drug-fueled counterculture of the 1970s American West.

Struggling with trauma, sexual objectification, and self-harm, the teenage T Kira Madden found salvation in her close relationships with other young women.

Posting videos of the drug addicted in active overdose to social media in a bid to publicly shame them to get clean is as about as effective as you’d expect it to be.

Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.

After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.

Football star Jackie Wallace’s life has taken him from the Super Bowl to the homeless camps of New Orleans, and he’s missing once again.

How Portugal combats its drug epidemic with decriminalization, social services, and new ways of thinking.

New York Times reporter Jack Healy was sitting in a diner when he received a tip about a father who had lost two of his three adult children to opioid overdoses.

In Oregon Humanities magazine, Loretta Stinson writes about her moment of clarity, the night when she saw her fifteen-year relationship to an abusive alcoholic for what it was, and decided to walk out on him.

Like Senna’s, Winehouse’s family co-operated with Kapadia, but unlike them, they are displeased with the film, and it’s not hard to see why. As well as a welcome portrait of the frequently caricatured Winehouse as an (exceptional) artist and as a person, Amy is an indictment of those around her, especially her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, […]

Heroin use and related overdoses have been increasing in nearly every demographic group in the U.S., a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report posted earlier this month shows. In obituaries, “a growing number of families are dropping the euphemisms,” instead describing the painful realities of addiction. David Amsden’s April 2014 Rolling Stone story, “The […]