Sleeping on Pins: A Life Without Opiates
April 5th, 2013 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Opiate withdrawal refers to the wide range of symptoms that occur after stopping or dramatically reducing opiate [...]
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Guest Post: Coping with Addiction in STEM Education
March 26th, 2013 |
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I’ve asked a scientist who has struggled with mental health issues and substance abuse through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduate school to write about it, to highlight the pressures faced and the way problems are noticed, exacerbated and often, perhaps unintentionally, masked over the course of education. This as well as other recent [...]
Keep reading »Policy Made Me Involved: We Need a Better Public Health System
February 24th, 2013 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- In the beginning, I said that I was a documentary writer, chronicling stories of addiction in one [...]
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