Drug addiction

Few social phenomena maintain a pedigree as long and unbroken as opiate use. With earliest evidence dating as far back as 3300 BC, humanity's relationship with the opium poppy has been as enduring as another habit of ours - the written…

Even if you don’t know it, there’s a good chance you know somebody who’s struggling with a dependency on drugs. Or maybe you knew somebody who had a drug problem, but through intense self-reflection and some help from their family and…

One of the tree branches I always grabbed hold of while failing to get sober is possibility; that there are so many successful, creative, incredible people who have gotten sober. There was the late writer David Foster Wallace, who got clean…

His friends called him Cubby                                              For Hubert Selby Jr.  He'd spent half his life in a duel with death, the other in a quest to transcend the Ego and get out of the way of art. He birthed…