Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
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Reporting on Bolivia’s Coca Rebirth: An Interview with Jessica Camille Aguirre
After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports
The Return and Disappearance of Football Star Jackie Wallace
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Nonfiction, Quotes
Treating Drug Epidemics Requires More Than Changes in Law
How Portugal combats its drug epidemic with decriminalization, social services, and new ways of thinking.
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Decriminalization: A Love Story
In a ranging piece funded by the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, journalist Susana Ferreira reports on the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal, where since 2001, addiction has been treated more like an illness than a crime.
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The Fourteen Who Forgot
After overdosing, some opioid addicts are losing their memory and nobody really knows why. All doctors know is that each patient’s hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory — becomes severely damaged. Are the opioids laced with an unknown toxin that targets the hippocampus? Does reduced respiration caused by opioid overdose damage […]
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A Slice of Cake and a Tip Lead to a Portrait of Addiction in Ohio
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.
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How One Woman Left Her Abusive Husband
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.
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The Amy Winehouse Documentary Doesn’t Pander
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, […]
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‘Either Addicted, or in Prison Because of Their Addiction’
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 […]