While reading Joshua Lyon’s recent account in “Jagged Little Pill Head” of recovering from opioid…
The last time I gave myself an injection, the needle held heroin. Now, two decades…
Egged on by the nation’s media, the Obama administration seems keen to start a full-fledged…
When I was injecting drugs back in the mid-1980s, several sneaky killers were haunting addicts. We…
Old-timers in Alcoholics Anonymous love to quote Carl Jung’s Latin pun “spiritus contra spiritum”—the Spirit…
There was a woman I met in recovery who told me, “If someone said, ‘You…
Addiction is hell. Addicts can trace its every detail in their sleep, while scientists are…
When I was an opiate user, I thought I knew all I needed to about…
