The Sun Interview

Hooked Maia Szalavitz Debunks Myths About Addiction

“Human beings will always want to get high. Every culture has intoxicants. We can either recognize this and make available the least-harmful substances in the least-harmful settings, or we can go on destroying people’s lives.”

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Peanut

“The goat became my charge during my third week in rehab. My counselor, Victoria, suggested I browse the stuffed-animal collection at the clinic gift shop and select one to represent my inner child.”

Lost

“It starts innocently, as these things do: You avoid soda and desserts all summer in preparation for basketball season, because you want to be faster up the court than anyone else.”

Missed Call

A father’s message

When I Was Invincible

A surfing lesson

Fiction

Recovery

“I close my eyes, thinking of where I was headed when Tara called earlier — or not quite thinking about it, but just coming to the edge of it, like standing at the curb, nothing more than that.”

Poetry

Truth Telling

Readers Write

Losing

A family heirloom, a best friend, a teen’s virginity

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