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The last time I gave myself an injection, the needle held heroin. Now, two decades…
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The medical definitions of addiction are poised to undergo a massive makeover—an occurrence almost as…
When I was injecting drugs back in the mid-1980s, several sneaky killers were haunting addicts. We…
Most people in my position would probably lie on their health insurance application. I didn’t.…