drugs

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…

The problem with operating 50 "laboratories of democracy" at once, plus D.C. and five major territories, plus the federal government, is that sooner or later one piece of America's legal patchwork runs afoul of one of the others. This is…

Patrick McDonnell, Paul Tylak and Paul Woodfull join me on PODAROONEY to chat about becoming a parent and how it has changed us. ? We also go on to talk about interactions with celebrities such as the late Freddie Starr, Joe Elliott…

Neil* is a US army veteran of Native American descent who worked in El Paso for 18 months. He came to Ireland in 2017. “I lived two miles from the border, up in the Franklin Mountains in eastern El Paso. I used to sit on my balcony,…

Animal House turns forty this year and it was the paradigm of an entirely new genre: the college movie. The movie is tasteless, but that’s part of its message.  The first of a new iteration has the most fascinating layers to it because what…

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…

The history of aspirin, or acetyl salicylic acid, presents to us legendary outlines, referring to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. More recently, aspirin was synthesized for the first time by the French chemist Charles Frederic Von…

What's my line? I'm happy cleaning windows, Take my time, I'll see you when my love grows. 'Cleaning Windows' - Van Morrison It was September and I had just returned from the U.S. having completed a J1 student visa. I stood in…

Application for Council Funding in Innovation and Design 2017 NAME Ongar West OCCUPATION I trawl the canals QUALIFICATIONS Absolutely WHY ARE YOU APPLYING FOR THIS FUNDING: (50 words) An idea to change the world. (Please note: I…

It seems that every year the amount of people who OD at festivals gets a little higher. Is this because festivals are one of the only places where wearing four day old clothes, being shirtless in the rain, and hiding a bottle of vodka in…