I write, I listen, I research, I tell stories. Mostly just listen. I don't think we listen without judgment enough. I explore marginalized things we like to ignore. Addiction and mental illness is The White Noise behind many lives -- simply what Is. Peripherals: I write on culture, poverty, addiction and mental illness in New York City, recovering from stints as a chemist and interactive TV producer. During the day, I teach science in South Bronx public school.
Thanksgiving with Crack Instead of Family
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
How to Become a Crack House Host
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Where Did You Go? A Letter to Beauty, Disappeared in Drugs, Poverty
Objectives To examine social contexts and processes influencing transition to drug injection among street youth. Methods 42 street youth participated in in-depth interviews.
Conversations with Men on the Run, or Not on the Run
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Methadone: Sonya and the Impossibilities of Maintenance
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Delusions of Power
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Following Love, or the Rise of Painkillers
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Drugs in the Dirt: Hygiene for the Street Drug User
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Romantic Comedy Goes Like This
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Faces of Overdose
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The Meaning of Heroin Mortality: Happy Birthday, Sarah
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HIV in a Post-Needle Exchange City
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Abscesses: the Rarely Researched, Costly Marks of Heroin
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Stats Say Cocaine Use Is in Decline…But Is It for the Poor?
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Stats Say Cocaine Use Is in Decline...But Is It for the Poor?
First Drug Charge Leaves a Man on the Run
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Psychology of Breaking Out of Detox: Sarah
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Help or Hurt? Outpatient Drug Treatment for the Homeless
How to Shoot Up
Addicts as Parents, Part V: Painkillers Bring You Back
Addicts as Parents, Part IV: When Kids Matter Little
Addicts as Parents, Part III: Future Planning
Addicts as Parents, Part II: Drugs to Hospital, Another Day
Addicts as Parents, Part I: Pregnant, Now What?