50 Miles from the Freeway: No Magic Pill
“[R]ural America, where people often suffer chronic pain due to lives of manual labor, has been struck hardest by the opiate epidemic.”
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“[R]ural America, where people often suffer chronic pain due to lives of manual labor, has been struck hardest by the opiate epidemic.”
Read more“Let’s start at the beginning. Let’s start with our kids.”
Read more“Men? We’re fucking tired. Your wives are tired. Your sisters are tired. Your mom is tired. We’re scared, and we’re trying, and we’re very, very tired.”
Read more“Most of my friends had babies over the last two years. I hear it was a weird time to have a baby, but then kiddoes don’t exactly come on schedule.”
Read more“Burnout is like a bad relationship, the kind you keep finding yourself in again and again despite being sure you knew how to avoid it this time.”
Read more“You’re gonna die. Sorry partner. I’m not saying this to be grabby, although depressing news is kind of my beat.”
Read more“I am going to say something controversial again. I think most orthodontic work is a scam.”
Read more“When we are too bound by our sense of propriety or ‘good manners’ to push back on people in our lives who are being racist, xenophobic or unkind, we’re not practicing common sense but abandoning our highest values.”
Read more“What do you call this time of year? For decades we’ve referred to the stretch between the last two weeks of November and first week of January as “the Holidays,” a term that encompasses celebrations of all faiths as well as the secular event of Thanksgiving.”
Read more“But if the Farm Party were to cross the aisle and actually ask the other side — let’s call them the Hunting Party — what they were thinking, they might begin to feel a little empathy.”
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