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‘People die of stigma. They don’t die from heroin.’
Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.
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I awoke Mother’s Day to a sparkling spring morning, feeling generous and giving just like a good mother should. I glanced at ...
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Under the bridge, a world of pain not so far from any of us
The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...
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This is what depression feels like
I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...
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A mother’s saga of morning sickness
I have never felt worse than I did during my pregnancies. Just six weeks into finding out I was carrying twins, soon after the fir ...
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Finding an extra grandma before it was too late
After meeting Lolly, I suddenly understood that I had a third grandmother — still a sparkplug — someone I may have never really known ...
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Seven ways to get real about traveling with kids
There was the time we kept our three children up until 1 a.m. before flying from Philadelphia to Seattle, hoping that they would sleep on ...
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How often have I actually been altruistic?
How often had I actually been altruistic, I recently wondered, recalling a day in the mid-1990s when, still in my naïve 20s, I ...
4 years ago
Confronting the conflicts of cleaning out the garage
This month we cleaned out our garage—a gargantuan chore that involved the whole family and threatened to send a rift through ...
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This is what I’m doing while you are asleep
I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...
4 years ago
The daily grind: What to make for dinner
My oldest daughter, the only one of our three children with a sophisticated palate, rarely gets to sample the diversity of dishes she was ...
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My mood was almost festive – we would have no childcare responsibilities for the next three days and be alone together for the firs ...
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