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Michael Lemonick and Alice Park examined the addictions many of us struggle with every day [Sept. 10]. Society often labels alcoholics and other addicts as moral failures, despite medical evidence to the contrary. The sad truth is that the active addict may experience a physical, psychological or even spiritual high and no longer make healthy, rational decisions. With the help of the medical community and support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, addicts can manage their disease. Michele Rugo, MURPHYS, CALIF...
...cigarette burns and scrapes - mark more than three decades of getting high on heroin. He says he first tried the drug at 13 and "was practically married to it" by the age of 22: "It became my total love. It was everything to me. I became not just an addict, but a stone-cold junkie." But last year he found a new love - a woman named Gladys, who inspired him to enter rehab. In 2006, Olmo was one of an estimated 22 million Americans with a substance abuse or dependency problem; today, he's one of just 2.5 million...
...with lowbrow material, for serving caviar as street food; references to Kipling and Matisse sit alongside descriptions of hustlers, hookers and high rollers. Coop learns from a gambler who lives in the desert in an abandoned plane, pulls off a fabulous score, has a romance with a duplicitous drug addict, and gets beaten up. This is when he meets Claire. Delirious from his beating, he mistakes her for Anna. It is a kind of wish fulfillment for Claire; she takes him back to meet her father and force a reconciliation. And now, when we are most curious about these characters...
Sources of Addiction Michael Lemonick and Alice Park examined the addictions many of us struggle with every day [July 23]. Society often labels alcoholics and other addicts as moral failures, despite medical evidence to the contrary. The sad truth is that the active addict may experience a physical, psychological or even spiritual high and no longer make healthy, rational decisions. With the help of the medical community and support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, addicts can manage their disease. Michele Rugo, Murphys, Calif...
...changed and would now be titled "The James Frey Controversy." She said she was bothered by the sanctimoniousness of Oprah Winfrey and the way the talk-show host attacked Frey, whose work Talese believes has great value for anyone who must deal with a loved one who is an addict. The publisher said that when she took responsibility for the publishing of the book on the show she said Oprah "didn't ask me another question," but turned her attention and wrath on Frey. After the show, Talese said Frey told her Oprah pulled him aside and said, "I know...