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The Crack House at the End of My Street
At 16 I discovered the secret but un-exclusive members club, unbiased of age, occupation, class and race. Now I'm finally sober.
No One Wants You to Fall in Love After Rehab
You’re too fragile. Intimacy is a trigger. It’s simply switching addictions from a drug to a person. So when you do meet someone, how do you know your feelings won’t doom you both?
What It's Like Being a Problematic Drug User at Christmas
"My family had no idea: I drink a lot of Diet Coke and they just thought I was hyper or, when I was coming down, they thought I was just having a depressive moment."
Life After Heroin Is Beautiful and Boring
One of the hardest lessons around being sober is learning to appreciate the ordinary, the mundane, and the normal.
Getting Sober Means Learning to Feel Bad
Heroine is an escape, a relief, a safe space. Giving it up means facing all the fear, rage, and terror you’ve been running from.
Who Am I Without Drugs? Imagining Life After Rehab
“My identity had become so entwined with heroin that I had normalized it. It was only occasionally, in a moment of clarity, that I realized just how abnormal being a heroin addict was.”
From Shopping for Dolls to Catfishing Friends, People Share Their Compulsive Behaviours
"Whenever I’d buy a doll, it was this euphoric high."
You Can Vomit or Shit It Out
It’s all part of the process of procuring drugs in prison as an ex-inmate tells us.
Norway has a plan to decriminalize all drugs
Norway will become the second country in the world where the use and possession of anything from cocaine to heroin will not be a criminal offense.
How the Stigma of Drug Addiction Hurts All of Us
As people continue to die en masse due to the opioid crisis, we look at how stereotypes surrounding drug use are holding society back.