Plastic Farm Animals
On your way to John’s Italian Pizza, your heart begins skipping around in your chest. You try not to panic. You know it is not right to blame the jelly beans, but you keep returning to them as the culprit. You hope you can make it to the finish line. If your luck holds out, […]
Our generation doesn’t think to send their kids off to college with, “And stay away from heroin, it’s a killer!” But we need to because heroin is ubiquitous, cheap, easy, and deadly. Last month I was blindsided by Zafer’s death. After recovering my balance, I started reading. I needed to know how a well-adjusted, talented […]
Sometimes a news story piques your interest and you have to dig around a little. On my (ten minute) commute from work the other day, I heard an NPR story about a rise in heroin use sparked by prescription drugs. From meds to needles in 3, 2, 1… Prescription drugs have long been a cleverly disguised […]
I read in an Associated Press Story that the Journal of the American Medical Association is tightening its policies for researchers after being “misled by researchers who failed to reveal financial ties to drug companies.” The study went on to conclude, “Most of the 13 authors have financial ties to drug companies including antidepressant makers, […]
I had one of those days. Wonderful and horrible kept swapping turns at the helm. When everything was going my way, I was up. When things stopped going my way, I was down. In fact, there were a few moments when I was downright livid with anger. I expect it’s the same with most people. […]