The Ecuadorian Library

or, The Blast Shack After Three Years

What It Was Like, What Happened, and What It’s Like Now.

My journey to recovery.

My Life in Hamburgers

My long, obsessive, and (too) deep relationship with hamburgers goes back to the earliest moments of consciousness—my plump little fingers clenching madly at tiny Royal Castle burgers, digging into the cloud-light buns with the same animal glee with which I plunged my face into the…

Immorality or Illness?

When my teenage son was raging out of control on drugs — wasted on crystal meth and heroin, careening toward death — I…

One Month with No Phone

Important lessons I learned while phoneless in San Francisco

Q&A Part 2: Child soldiers, inheritance and addiction

Getting Fixed — Addiction to Heroin

What Addicts Must Endure In Between Their Hits and Highs

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Highlights Our Ignorance About Addiction

After the death of the beloved…

The Lost War

The war on drugs was lost because the war on addiction was never begun

Fashionably Stoned

A “celebrity boutique” celebrates drug use at children’s expense