It’s time for a confession. I have not been writing many blogs for Opiate Nation in the past two years — not because I haven’t had time but because I have felt discouraged. Decades into the Opioid Epidemic and all the information and media coverage, the hope that addiction and deaths from drug overdoses would decrease has proven unfounded. It seems that people in general are just tired of hearing about it, especially if it doesn’t particularly concern them. And I have felt that I didn’t have anything helpful to add to the conversation and wondered: what more needs to be said?
Psychoactive Politics: The Global Confluence of Opioids, Authority, and Revolution
Opioids are now rivaling the societal damage inflicted by smoking tobacco. In the U.S. as cigarette sales have dropped and lung cancer deaths have…