because it's boring? But no, this is a great reason for both friends and governments not to immediately leap to, "Maybe you have a problem and need help," when somebody has their first realization that they have maybe strayed into 1 Party 2 Many territory. I've made the over-interventiony mistake at least once (I think it's fairly normal for those of us who actually did need to completely quit drinking/using) so it's worth keeping in mind that most people who think, "Whoa okay, I need to get it … [Read more...]
“Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It–Why Is This Widely Denied?”: Maia Szalavitz
October 5, 2014 by
From “Infinite Jest”
October 4, 2014 by
Exec. Director [of Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (sic)] Pat M. is due in at 0900 and has application interviews with three people, 2F and 1M, who better be showing up soon, and Gately will answer the door when they don't know enough to just come in and will say Welcome and get them a cup of coffee if he judges them able to hold it. He'll get them aside and tip them off to be sure to pet Pat M.'s dogs during the interview. They'll be sprawled all over the front office, sides … [Read more...]
Clone High: Roxana Robinson’s “Cost”
September 17, 2014 by
Look, I have to level with you people: This is a fairly good and poignant novel about family miscommunications and thwarted love, wrapped around a disingenuous, mediocre, and kind of infuriating novel about heroin addiction.Good stuff first, I hear that substance abusers lack self-discipline so let's eat our dessert first. The book is about a once-wealthy New England family riven by divorce; patriarch Edward is insufferably smug, his wife Katharine is losing her memory, their daughter Julia … [Read more...]
“The Vast Majority of Illegal Drug Use Is Not Problematic”: Substance.com
August 21, 2014 by
Go here to see the chart. … [Read more...]
“Journalists, Radio Hosts, Addicts, The Imprisoned, And the Pro-Life Movement”
August 14, 2014 by
an incomplete list of people St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of. Whoa. His feast day is today. That list via David Freddoso. … [Read more...]
“The New York Times’s Coverage of Other Drugs Still Doesn’t Cut It”: Maia Szalavitz
August 6, 2014 by
at Substance.com: ...Schwarz goes on to describe how deputy/pharmacist Logan sometimes actually jumps over the counter and arrests people “on the spot” if they come to one of his stores with a forged or otherwise illegitimate prescription. That’s a real health-care pro in action!And throughout, Schwarz tells the story of one of Logan’s arrests, describing a sobbing mother—the one he’d holstered his guns and put on his bulletproof vest to go out and arrest—now in jail. She was charged with “d … [Read more...]
Tenn. Mother Charged with Assault for Drug Use While Pregnant: ThinkProgress
July 12, 2014 by
uses an unnecessarily tendentious headline, but these laws really are a bad idea, as I discussed here: At the beginning of July, 26-year-old Mallory Loyola gave birth to a baby girl. Two days later, the state of Tennessee charged her with assault. Loyola is the first woman to be arrested under a new law in Tennessee that allows the state to criminally charge mothers for potentially causing harm to their fetuses by using drugs.The legislation, which officially took effect about a week ago, … [Read more...]
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