The Longform Guide to Addiction
A collection of our favorite articles about dependency.
Me & My Monkey
Confessions of a white-collar heroin addict.
Anonymous Washington City Paper Jan 1995 1h15min
Heroin/e
Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.
Cheryl Strayed DoubleTake Apr 1999 35min
My Addicted Son
A father on his son’s meth problem.
David Scheff New York Times Feb 2005 25min
Video Games: The Addiction
Three years lost to Grand Theft Auto.
Tom Bissell Guardian Mar 2010 20min
The High is Always the Pain and the Pain is Always the High
Giving yourself over to poker.
Jay Caspian Kang Morning News Oct 2010 20min
Letting Go
On quitting cigarettes.
David Sedaris New Yorker May 2008 15min
Secret of AA
Seventy-five years after its founding, it’s still hard to explain exactly why Alcoholics Anonymous works.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Jun 2010 20min
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