overdose
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On amusement parks, depression, and familiarity with death.
Some types of fun aren’t meant for everyone …
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On fire and ash.
The phoenix falls into fire, burns, and dies. Then rises again, reborn. The phoenix triumphs over adversity. Life gets hard, excruciatingly hard. Everything falls to shit. But the phoenix rises again. Or so we hope. Sometimes, the fire burns too hot. And then the phoenix dies and stays dead. Sometimes ash isn’t a phoenix egg.…
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On dealing.
For deftly navigating the vagaries of supply and demand, M.B.A. students are praised. Dealers wind up in jail.
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On overdose.
Minority heroin users were anonymously demonized for decades; now they’re being killed.
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On reading Natalie Diaz’s “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs” with a room full of men in jail for drugs.
Natalie Diaz wrings beauty from an impossible situation — how much hurt can you bear, trying to help someone who can’t be saved?
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On Finn Murphy’s “The Long Haul” and our dying towns
U.S. economic inequality has caused much of the country to crumble … but the devastation won’t *stay* where it started.
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On pain.
Habitual drug use ruins lives. But the War on Drugs ends them.
Frank Brown Cloud 