Unabashed ravishment, whether from binge eating or drug use, makes those of us who strive for autonomous individuality deeply uncomfortable.…
In 2020, Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro criticized grade-school didactic books for having “too much written in them.” Apparently the Left,…
The speeches at the press conference in Harlem were a distillation of stigmatizing ideas about methadone, clinics and patients that…
Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make you cry and scream. Cry for…
Recently one of our prison’s library clerks, Polo*, remarked in passing that the Georgia Department of Corrections prison system was…
The library at South Central Correctional Facility, a Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, consists of a single wall of…
Publius Ovidius Naso, known today as Ovid, was a Roman poet of great acclaim and some infamy. His works remain…
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells the story of how Elizabeth Elliot…
The roots of today’s stigmatization of people who use drugs—and of paternalistic, exploitative, often cruel approaches to what we now…
Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman and writer, lived during the 1st Century CE. He died, famously, during the eruption…