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June 14, 2016
Don’t Medicalize My Eschaton (or, What If Addiction Isn’t a Thing?)
Three blind men are feeling around with their hands, trying to determine what's in front...
May 2015
May 18, 2015
“‘Force is the Best Medicine’: How America Overdosed on Drug Courts”
by Maia Szalavitz: ...If doctors were to deviate this far from the standard of care in...
January 2015
January 29, 2015
Hi, I’m Stercorius and I’m an Addict
HI STERCORIUS. I was in Russian class, trying to describe a character from a movie...
October 2014
October 22, 2014
“Sublime Recovery and Banal Recovery”: I’m in AmCon
sketching: This week I’m preparing to go to the 10th National Harm Reduction Conference (which...
October 05, 2014
“Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It–Why Is This Widely Denied?”: Maia Szalavitz
because it's boring? But no, this is a great reason for both friends and governments...
August 2014
August 06, 2014
“The New York Times’s Coverage of Other Drugs Still Doesn’t Cut It”: Maia Szalavitz
at Substance.com: ...Schwarz goes on to describe how deputy/pharmacist Logan sometimes actually jumps over the...
July 2014
July 03, 2014
“Ten Ways Addiction Is Different in America”: The Invaluable Maia Szalavitz
at Substance: We Americans like to think of ourselves as exceptional, the land of the...
March 2014
March 12, 2014
“This Is the Beginning of the End of the War on Drugs”: Maia Szalavitz
at the intriguing new site Substance: For anyone interested in addiction and drug policy, the...
February 2014
February 12, 2014
Bet You Can’t Read Just One: Addiction/Recovery Link Round-Up
"International Geographic": I discovered that a lot of conditions which are simply a part of...
February 06, 2014
Five Things for Thursday
What I've been reading. "Why Young Sexual Assault Victims Tell Incoherent Stories." When my alarmed...
January 2014
January 15, 2014
Cracked vs. “Troubled Teen” Industry
Great piece: When I was 14, I lived with my grandparents in a wealthy gated...
August 2013
August 30, 2013
Friday Links: Wal-Mart, Letter to My Freshman Self, Kitchen Tricks, And Much More
What I'm reading. If you follow me on Twitter you've seen some of these--but not...
August 01, 2013
“What We Taught Children to Do to Other Children”
Indiegogo site raising money for Fix My Kid, a documentary on the abuses of the...
April 2013
April 05, 2013
Addictions and Corrections to the Minutes
See what I did there? Anyway, I have a whole lot of random notes or...
April 02, 2013
The Twelve Steps and/as/vs. Religion
There is no way I will regret writing this post! Anyway, Helen Rittelmeyer has a...
March 2013
March 25, 2013
“The Loneliness of the Addict Activist”: Maia Szalavitz
at The Fix: It’s hard to convey the sense of crisis felt by people using...
March 11, 2013
“The Battle for Needle Exchange”: Maia Szalavitz
at The Fix: ...I’ll never forget seeing needle exchange done by activists for the first...
January 2013
January 29, 2013
“How Effective Are Tactics Used on TV Shows to Treat Troubled Teens?”: Maia Szalavitz
reports: Terrifying teens by making them lie in coffins, forcing them to spend a night...
November 2012
November 22, 2012
“Why Gratitude Isn’t Just for Thanksgiving”
lol science! But this is a good piece.
October 2012
October 17, 2012
More on the “marshmallow test”
from Maia Szalavitz: ...So, what determines which children will fall among the lucky 25% who...
October 05, 2012
Ask Maia Szalavitz stuff!
new feature at The Fix: Welcome to my first “Ask Maia” column, in which I...
October 04, 2012
“We Had to Torture the Children in Order to Save Them”
I write about abusive teen-treatment centers, for AmCon.
June 2012
June 12, 2012
“What You Don’t Know About Recovery–And Don’t Want to”
by the invaluable Maia Szalavitz: Indeed, the data on recovery reveal that many people don’t...
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