- News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns
Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jan 8, 2013
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They took the blue pill
Addiction resembles immortality—or is it the other way around?—in Kathryn Born’s dystopian new novel, The Blue Kind.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Nov 28, 2012
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How I learned to stop worrying and drink coffee already
A caffeine newbie tries not to lose his mind
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 24, 2012
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Gimme back the pure stuff
Transplanted to America, Irvine Welsh's tale doesn't offer the same high
- Blogs, Bleader, May 2, 2012
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Then and now: one west-side addict's account
Tasha's tale: another west-side story
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jan 26, 2012
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What to read after you've stopped drinking
A magazine devoted to life—and lifestyle—for those in recovery
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 30, 2011
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Sarz Maxwell, psychiatrist
"Heroin addicts are the pleasantest, kindest people," she says.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 10, 2010
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Things Go Better With Coke
The party line on drug suppression, circa 1897.
- Movies, Movie Review, Jun 17, 2010
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Family Values in Meth Country
In Debra Granik's Winter's Bone, traditional and modern America intersect in the ugliest way.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2009
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Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa's documentary "Which Way Home," screening Friday 12/11 at Chicago Filmmakers, rides along on a train roof through Mexico with unaccompanied boys stowing away into the United States.
