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How Not to Live a Life July 06, 2022
Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill reviewed. This book risks being read as a salutary treatise on wrong choices, on how not to live a life....
A History of Addiction in ‘The Urge’ January 31, 2022
As a psychiatrist in training, Carl Erik Fisher knew he had a problem. He was showing up to his rounds hungover or still drunk from the night before, lying to his superiors about his alcohol abuse. This couldn’t be happening to him. He was the doctor...
Review of Sam Quinones’s 'The Least of Us' January 05, 2022
A new book documents the grim realities of America’s never-ending drug crisis....
Normalizing Drug Use for Grown-Ups January 29, 2021
Carl Hart wants us to know that he’s not a drug addict. Hart, a tenured professor at Columbia, uses drugs copiously, including marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and designer drugs. He insists that they do not limit his competency as a professor or ...
Drug Use for Grown-Ups January 15, 2021
In a referendum in November, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD. The move was inspired by a 2001 law in Portugal that removed incarceration as a penalty for drug ...
What Happened to Jordan Peterson? March 13, 2020
The Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson has been described as “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world.” He is an exponent of the Jungian concept of the hero’s journey, in which an ordinary person heeds a call to adven...
