Addiction – Books Smitten

Dark Days

Unlike the autobiography, which is a chronological narrative of a person’s life, the memoir offers a season of life. Some memoirists write mainly about their faith, relationship changes, or a year-long project they undertook. It takes courage to write honestly. As a memoirist, you should have insight into yourself and others. There is usually theContinue reading “Dark Days”

The Scourge

After the past year, the opioid crisis has fallen away from headlines. Alas, it is still very real, killing over 80,000 people in 2020. Since 1999, over 800,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses, 70% of them related to opioids. As Beth Macy details in Dopesick, poppy-derived opiates are nothing new. Morphine and heroin wereContinue reading “The Scourge”