Most folks would think that bottom would be breaking into a good friend’s house, a good friend dying of cancer, to steal her morphine. I mean, I didn’t exactly break in. She always left the door unlocked, and nobody was supposed to be there. And anyway, I wasn’t going to steal all the morhine. Just […] (Read the rest.)
By Almendra…. My passage through drug addiction has a twist that has surprised all my shrinks and therapists, though perhaps some of you are aware of this “recipe.” I took poppy pods (the larger the better — golf ball-size is good, tennis ball even better) and I ground them up into a rough mess and steeped […] (Read the rest.)
By Charlie…. I was a binge drinker for two decades, going several months between binges that lasted from a few days to, in the end, almost two months. I was hospitalized about a dozen times, and retried AA as many. I was often told by emergency doctors that my blood-alcohol level was so high […] (Read the rest.)
By Roy… Drugs came into my life because an exhausted old Austin A40 just didn’t like hills. I was 15 and we were looking for a party. The old Austin struggled at walking pace up one hill and half in jest, half seriously, I offered to get out and push. I opened the door, the […] (Read the rest.)
By Janet… There are so many ways to die. It seems only the real death gets acknowledged but there are so many other deaths. That happens inside. Like the death when you love an addict. The not being able to live. The death of hope. That death when you are sick with hope, and it […] (Read the rest.)
Informed by unparalleled neuroscientific insight and written with his usual flare, Marc Lewis’s The Biology of Desire effectively refutes the medical view of addiction as a brain disease. A bracing and informative corrective to the muddle that now characterizes public and professional discourse on this topic.” —Gabor Maté, M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
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