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‘All-Night Pharmacy’ Is a Bisexual Neo-Noir About Addiction, Psychics, and Intergenerational Trauma

In this fresh take on the mystery novel, what needs to be solved is not a murder — it’s not even a missing sister or the truth of a psychic…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 9, 2024

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The Invisible Addicts: Addiction and Treatment in Black LGBT Communities

In my own struggle to get sober, I would spend days telling myself that my bottoms were “not that bad.” That the next day I would drink lighter, drink less,…

danijanae —

Feb 27, 2020

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How to Fry Potatoes

When Thanksgiving rolled around I spent all my money on alcohol, and was left eating potatoes every meal for two weeks.

danijanae —

Nov 15, 2019

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The Sociopath Who Loved Me Enough

“As soon as we met Tara and Tony, our lives morphed to make room for them. Instead of drinking Carol’s parents’ liquor on Friday nights, we went to their apartment…

swan huntley —

Aug 27, 2018

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If Lindsay Lohan is “Pathetic,” Then So Am I: What It Feels Like for a Drug Addict

If Lindsay Lohan is the ‘most pathetic person alive’ then I must come in at a close second. After all, I’ve been in and out of rehab twice as many…

Guest —

Sep 27, 2010