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September 2014
September 17, 2014
Clone High: Roxana Robinson’s “Cost”
Look, I have to level with you people: This is a fairly good and poignant...
August 2014
August 21, 2014
“The Vast Majority of Illegal Drug Use Is Not Problematic”: Substance.com
Go here to see the chart.
August 14, 2014
“Journalists, Radio Hosts, Addicts, The Imprisoned, And the Pro-Life Movement”
an incomplete list of people St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of. Whoa. His feast...
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 12, 2014
Tenn. Mother Charged with Assault for Drug Use While Pregnant: ThinkProgress
uses an unnecessarily tendentious headline, but these laws really are a bad idea, as I...
July 08, 2014
Massachusetts Sued for Imprisoning Addicted Women Who Haven’t Committed* Crimes
*should be "haven't been convicted of any crimes," sorry; also I fixed the link: “As...
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...
June 2014
June 26, 2014
Today, Global Protests Call for Support, Not Punishment, For Drug Users
from Substance.com: In an unprecedented display of people power against the war on drugs, thousands...
June 23, 2014
Musical Rosary #7–The Scourging at the Pillar
But he was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. He bore the punishment...
June 18, 2014
Musical Rosary #3–The Nativity
MORE BABIES, until now I don't think I'd realized how much the first three mysteries...
June 13, 2014
And All at Once I Had to Face the Big Light: Some movie reviews
Rachel Getting Married: The story of a woman coming out of rehab just in time...
June 13, 2014
“Music of the Trilobites”: I’m in AmSpec
on music, drinking, and John Darnielle's novel Master of Reality. You can read it now...
May 2014
May 21, 2014
“Music of the Trilobites”: Me in AmSpec
not really a book review! I read John Darnielle’s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the...
April 2014
April 25, 2014
The Mask of Obedience
Last year I wrote this really scattershot, unsatisfying post about "The Beauty of Obedience," rescuing...
March 2014
March 28, 2014
“A Stillborn Child Leads to a Murder Charge”: Me at AmCon
on an awful, years-long case: In 2006, 15-year-old Rennie Gibbs became pregnant. She tested positive...
March 19, 2014
Too Much Harmony: “Water by the Spoonful,” A Play About Friendship, Dissonance, and Humiliating Identity
Last night I saw Quiara Alegria Hudes's Pulitzer-winning Water by the Spoonful at Studio Theatre....
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 17, 2014
“Making Do”: I’m in Commonweal
with an actual review of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City:...
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 12, 2014
Addiction and the Politics (and Poetics) of Personal Responsibility: me at AmCon
a listicle, and for some reason I saved the best stuff for the end, so...
February 04, 2014
Seth Mnookin on Relapse and the Ghost World
One truism of addiction science is that long-term abuse rewires your brain and changes its...
January 2014
January 30, 2014
If Addiction Is Continuing a Behavior Which Hurts You and Others Because You Can’t Imagine Any Alternative…
what's the Drug War? Radley Balko has a must-read roundup of the knee-jerk and the...
January 22, 2014
“There’s This Thing That Keeps Rising in the Background”
Craving is “the one condition all addicts agree is their worst enemy,” Lewis said. “This...
December 2013
December 27, 2013
“Stephen King and That Awful Muttering Voice”: Me in AmSpec
now available in full: What do you do when you’re in a Stephen King novel,...
December 06, 2013
“Stephen King and That Awful Muttering Voice”: Me in the American Spectator
It's an overview of King's work plus a review of his two most recent novels:...
December 02, 2013
“Never Quite Free”: My series on portrayals of penitence concludes
with a look at the Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed. This piece has...
November 2013
November 05, 2013
Yoda and the Giving Tree: The Leaf-Green Faces of the Enemy
Two points connected solely by my desire to use this title. First, I am not...
November 05, 2013
Fools, Drunks, And Americans
As much as I love the idea of a ballet about alcoholism, this article on...
September 2013
September 28, 2013
“Thanks for Sharing”: Let Your Inhibitions Run Wild
Helen Rittelmeyer is obviously right that we're in a cultural moment where addiction and recovery...
September 25, 2013
‘Cause You Just Can’t Do Things Your Blogwatch Wasn’t Meant To
or, stuff I've been reading. The trust gap between working- and middle-class young people (related...
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