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The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

“As capitalism has invented ever more ways to be miserable, so too has it invented ever more specific ways to ease that misery.”

By P.E. Moskowitz | September 11, 2025

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug

By Andrew R. Gallimore | July 16, 2025

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Hamlet While He Was Stoned?">Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?

Sam Kelly Explores the Potential Influence of Cannabis on the Bard’s Prolific Literary Output

By Sam Kelly | July 8, 2025

How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

Lisa Pratta on Her Decision to Expose the Systemic Corruption Within the Pharmaceutical Industry

By Lisa Pratta | June 12, 2025

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

Susannah Cahalan on the Disappearing Acts and Unseen Influences of Timothy Leary’s Wife

By Susannah Cahalan | April 23, 2025

“Good Medicine and a Very Bad Drug...” Reckoning With the Deadly Duality of Fentanyl

“Good Medicine and a Very Bad Drug...” Reckoning With the Deadly Duality of Fentanyl

Ryan Hampton Considers Addiction, Recovery, and the Human Cost of the Drug Crisis in America

By Ryan Hampton | September 26, 2024

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My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

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On Addiction Tropes, “Grittiness,” and the Freedom to Focus on Ideas

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Danny Trejo on Doing Time with Charles Manson and Finding Freedom in the Boxing Room

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One of America’s Great Character Actors Looks Back at His Time in Prison

By Danny Trejo with Donal Logue | July 9, 2021

On Drug Use, Racism, and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

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By Keen On | January 28, 2021

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