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The New ‘New Dylans’: Musical Storytellers for Modern Times
John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats Here are four of the finest narrators who still use song as a medium—raconteurs capturing distinctly modern stories. ——— Musicians were the original storytellers—the...
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Culture’s Effect on Victims
A story of child labor, sex slavery and those times when culture slaps you in the face. The silence in the room conveyed uncertainty after I told my story to the six young girls residing at My Refuge...
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When Parents are Branded as Bad
Law Professor Tamar Birckhead on the unintended consequences of a system meant to protect children. “If a society values its children, it must cherish their parents.” –John Bowlby, child development...
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Drugs Like Car Crashes, Shootings and Falling
More Americans now die from drug overdose than from any other cause of injury death. I’m cruising the roads of North Carolina, listening to NPR, when some public health professional says: “For the...
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Flying Dadless
Erik Proulx is parenting without a script—or a father’s influence. And he’s doing a damn good job. —- In my attention-seeking younger days, I took a morbid satisfaction in telling people that I grew...
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Driving Away from Restitution
A fathers drops off a coat to his daughter, a coat she will need to take with her when she goes to the halfway house for drug addiction. — I’m driving away now, from the place they have you housed,...
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What Do We Want for Our Children?
The tragic and untimely death of Philip Seymour Hoffman made a lot of people think. Larry Bernstein thought about the children. — What job would you like for your children? This question, or some...
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Robin Williams Rest In Peace
We have lost ‘The Funniest Man in the World’ — “The world has lost one of its most beloved artist and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken.” Robin William’s wife Susan Schneider said in a...
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How I Became a Cocaine Addict
Cocaine temporarily solved a big problem for Brian Cuban. But it created even bigger ones. Now in recovery, he recounts his journey into addiction. ___ New Years Day 1977. Sixteen years old. Sitting...
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Can Medical Marijuana Curb the Heroin Epidemic?
Formerly demonized and later legislated as a Schedule 1 substance, marijuana could diminish the damage wrought by harder drugs, like heroin. — By Miriam Boeri, Bentley University In the 1930s, Harry...
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Why We Run #17: Reclaiming My Life
In our darkest moments of life, we all need something to bring us back to the light. ___ The Good Men Project Sports asked Why We Run? In this feature series, we share your answers. This is Tim...
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American Violence: Will Black Sons Die Before They’re Killed?
Is violence In America the result of the death within us? – It’s so hard to watch the riots in Baltimore knowing the long term devastation it will have on communities that are already hurting. It was...
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A Dad Looks Back on His Drug Addicted Father Without Regrets
Joe’s feelings towards his dad have always been complicated. He was never been able to really express his opinion about it until he applied it to his own life. He has gained new perspective, and...
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An Ex Male Model Explains: Why Fame is Not For Me
View image | gettyimages.com His rock star lifestyle wasn’t fulfilling, and his Bipolar Disorder was driving him to the brink. Here’s what he learned. — Lying on the ceramic floor in my drug dealer’s...
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The 10 Step Journey from Life’s Pain to Life’s Purpose
View image | gettyimages.com This process helped Michael Bethune to go from homelessness, depression and despair into his life’s purpose. — At one point in my life I thought that I would die in the...
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Why Are Death Rates Rising for Middle Aged White Americans?
The cult of emotional toughness and the constant drumbeat of bootstrap thinking among whites has unleashed an epidemic of social isolation. — A recent study by Nobel Prize winning economist Angus...
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Why ‘Manning Up’ is the Worst Thing You Can Do
How we can heal male trauma and the resulting illnesses it creates. — This article was originally published in the Good Health Issue of Yes Magazine. The traditional rules about how to be a “real...
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A Practical Look at Prohibition and the War on Drugs
Embed from Getty Images The lives of our loved ones depend on a practical, effective approach to ending drug and alcohol abuse. — What do prohibition and the war on drugs have in common? Both...
View ArticleThe Rising Rate of Dying White Men (and Why the Heroin Epidemic Matters to...
Getty Images . Mortality among white men in the United States is increasing. This epidemic is one of the primary reasons and racism and the “man-box” are at the root the problem. — Brandon* had an...
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I Didn’t Get Sober Just to Write about Recovery
Our lives—and all the beauty in them—demand that we get and stay sober. — Wanna know why I got sober? Because I was arrested and I had to. I stood to lose everything. I had already lost a lot of my...
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