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.)
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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