Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain Written by SHREEYA SINHA illustrations by ZACH LIEBERMAN and LESLYE DAVIS Published in the NY Times December 18, 2018 “In your mind, you can be O.K., you can just do one. But one is too many, and a thousand is never enough.” — Bruce Cherry, 58, Pennsylv […]
It would be extraordinary for a grown woman to spontaneously ration herself to 300 calories a day or vomit after every meal. Odds are that the skeletons pacing your average ‘Eating Disorders Ward’ have not had a short-term relationship with celery and self-loathing. Slowly, the flirtatious ecstasy of weight loss mutates into a full-fledged affair […]