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Are Cigarette Smokers “Really” Addicts?
While I was in the UK for my father-in-law’s funeral last week, I had an interesting talk with someone who has tried and failed for some years to quit smoking. This guy has been smoking for half his...
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Book Review: Jeffrey Schwartz’s “You Are Not Your Brain.”
Leo DiCaprio as the obsession-driven Howard Hughes. So here’s an interesting story about the work of Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D., a psychiatrist who studies neuroplasticity and mindfulness, and who...
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Dear Policymakers: Get Addicts To Help You Protect Public Health.
Read my piece at The Fix today about David Kwiatkowski, the hepatitis C–infected hospital tech indicted last month for stealing drugs from operating rooms. He is suspected of stealing syringes of...
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You Gotta Have Chore Boy.
Cross-posted with Recovering The Body Dear People, I haven’t posted in a while because I’m wading knee-deep in writing this book about physical recovery. When I set up this blog over the summer I had...
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Why People With Addiction Act Like “Crazy” Teenagers.
Anthony Michael Hall, aka “The Brain,” toking away in the school library in “The Breakfast Club.” So I’ve taken rather a long hiatus from this site so I could focus on finishing a book. To those who...
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New York Times Addiction Story—Is Addiction Really Like Diabetes?
Yesterday the New York Times ran a story called “Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment,” about how medical schools are starting to establish accredited residencies in addiction medicine. This...
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Community Is Expensive, Drugs Are Cheap
One magazine I sometimes read is More, whose content is designed to help women in midlife. This month they’ve got a long feature on how women with migraines are being deluged with painkillers. The...
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Reducing Our Chemical Load: What Bees Can Teach Us.
Last summer I came across a New York Times opinion piece by a Canadian biologist about the widespread collapse of North American beehives. There are multiple causes, but the author focused on the fact...
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Middle-Aged White Women: Why Are We Dying?
Selfie of G. I’m 51, and I’m in the demographic that’s dying fastest. I have six years in abstinence-based recovery from painkiller addiction. The New York Times is all over the “narcotic epidemic”...
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A Different Prince.
Prince, pupils pinned v.01. (When you’re addicted to opioids, you can hide a lot, but you can’t hide your pinned pupils.) When they said Prince had been saved by a shot of naloxone on the plane home...
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