Beautiful Boy is haunting me. I can’t stop thinking about the film after seeing it in the theater alone this past Saturday morning. While I never did crystal meth, I used to do several hardcore drugs and Beautiful Boy forced me to revisit those terrifying memories.
Carrie Fisher’s cause of death was officially confirmed as sleep apnea, with other factors, including heart disease and drug abuse. Drug abuse can intensify symptoms of sleep apnea and even prove to be fatal when the two are combined.
The longtime frontman for Depeche Mode, one of the world’s most popular and influential electronic groups was hooked on heroin. He somehow managed to not only clean up but come back more vital than before.
This edgy, illustrated black-and-white and occasionally red graphic novel plays out in vignettes from Cobain’s life both before he became famous and after. A must-read for any Nirvana fan.
Recovering opioid addict, activist, and artist Macklemore paid a special visit to the White House on Saturday to talk addiction with President Obama.
Opioid-overdose deaths have nearly tripled since 2000, and Congress is finally doing something about it. Several bills passed in the House on Thursday to combat opioid addiction.
The opioid epidemic in this country is unequivocally a disaster. But there’s a miracle drug that could stop those overdose deaths: Narcan.
At the proposed facility, a nurse would be onsite and armed with naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, in order to prevent ODs or other complications.
The current heroin epidemic is killing thousands each year, and the problem only gets worse over time. This story is a precautionary tale, a fair warning about the dangers of heroin — the most addictive drug of them all.
Trent Reznor is the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band whose instant classic Pretty Hate Machine debuted with a roar in 1989. Sober now, he has struggled with depression and social anxiety for years and is a notorious alcoholic and addict. He writes about it in his music.
