Tag: books
In Praise of Pleasure
Unabashed ravishment, whether from binge eating or drug use, makes those of us who ...
Jair Bolsonaro, Enemy of Books, Now in Brazil’s Prison Reading Program
In 2020, Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro criticized grade-school didactic books for having “too much ...
“Would You Want to Live Next to a Clinic?”—Methadone NIMBYism
The speeches at the press conference in Harlem were a distillation of stigmatizing ideas ...
Blowing the Lid Off the Scandal of US Rehab
Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make ...
It Shouldn’t Be Quite This Hard to Get Into Our Prison’s Library
Recently one of our prison’s library clerks, Polo*, remarked in passing that the Georgia ...
To See the US Prisons Crisis, Look at the Books We’re Trying to Read
The library at South Central Correctional Facility, a Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, ...
“Sleep’s Cave”—The Speculation Around Ovid’s Opium References
Publius Ovidius Naso, known today as Ovid, was a Roman poet of great acclaim ...
A Daughter’s Life and Death, Seen Through a Harm Reduction Lens
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells ...
Belladonna and Bad Actors: The Telling History of Addiction Treatment
The roots of today’s stigmatization of people who use drugs—and of paternalistic, exploitative, often ...
Pliny the Elder’s Ancient But Refreshing Take on Opium
Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman and writer, lived during the 1st Century CE. ...
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