Added on August 12, 2021 Book Review You’ve Never Seen the Opioid Crisis Like This Before: A Review of Empire of Pain It’s hard to keep up with the ever-growing body of literature on the opioid crisis, which has killed nearly as […]
Added on June 18, 2019 Culture , Historical essay The Opioid Epidemic as Metaphor [gblockquote source=”Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor“]Of course, one cannot think without metaphors. But that does not mean there aren’t some […]
Added on July 25, 2017 Health and Wellness The “Right” and “Wrong” Kind of Addict: Iatrogenic Opioid Addiction in Historical Context Last year, Kelly McEvers of NPR’s Embedded podcast introduced us to Joy. Something about Joy seems so ordinary, even familiar. […]