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“I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call it Meth Anymore”

by Peter Rubin October 21, 2021October 19, 2022

“Soon, tons of P2P meth were moving north, without any letup, and the price of meth collapsed. But there was more to the story than higher volume. Ephedrine meth tended to damage people gradually, over years. With the switchover to P2P meth, that damage seemed to accelerate, especially damage to the brain.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Voice in Your Head

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 8, 2021October 19, 2022

The Hearing Voices Movement is reshaping our understanding of hallucination — and what it means to be “mad.”

Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes

‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’

by michelleweber February 26, 2020October 19, 2022

He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

The Unreliable Reader

by Wei Tchou April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Chimayó

by Longreads January 24, 2019October 19, 2022

Esmé Weijun Wang discovers a new interpretation of faith while on two kindred pilgrimages: one to find an accurate medical diagnosis, one to a sacred site in New Mexico.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes

Bruce Springsteen: Sadness, Love, Madness, and Soul

by Krista Stevens November 30, 2018October 19, 2022

“All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Searching for Insights from Her Father’s Delusions

by Aaron Gilbreath October 31, 2018October 19, 2022

When a journalist tries to understand her father’s claims of CIA surveillance, she learns to see her digital world in a very different light.

Posted inCrime, Quotes

Just Another Bugout Behind Bars

by michelleweber June 14, 2018October 19, 2022

How and when did prisons become one of the New York’s major providers of mental health care — and can we actually call it “care”?

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs

by Jenny Aurthur May 4, 2018October 19, 2022

After suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs

by Jenny Aurthur May 4, 2018October 19, 2022

After suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.

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