by admin | Feb 7, 2019 | News
On day three of Lowell Cauffiel’s final detox from alcohol, a giant rabbit in a tuxedo and top hat tapped on the window of his second-floor bedroom.Cauffiel, a bestselling true crime author, Hollywood screenwriter and producer purposely didn’t go to rehab...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | News
When Leslie Jamison was a student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she fell in love with the myth of the alcoholic writer: the myth that liquor fed, not poisoned, great writing. By getting drunk in the same Iowa City bars as 20th-century alcoholic literary...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | News
NASHVILLE — In 2009, my husband had an emergency spinal-fusion operation to prevent permanent nerve damage caused by a ruptured disk. I was rolling the I.V. pole while he pushed a walker around the hospital corridor when I got an urgent call from a friend: “Don’t let...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | News
Two years ago, I spent a week in Houston helping my stepbrother while he underwent treatment for Stage 4 lymphoma at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. I sat with him while a nurse cleaned his chemo port and made records of her work, to keep his...
by admin | Jun 28, 2018 | News
Despair, hope and drugs in America: Is anyone safe? Fox News While America was diverted by homegrown terrorism, economic stress and mass shootings, another scourge quietly moved to the fore: drug addiction. Read the full...
