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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

I started smoking when I was a teen and quit 20 times. I still love the occasional cigarette.

The day I turned 16, I picked up two things - my driver's license and a $1.98 pack of Kool 100 Milds from a gas station I knew would sell to me. It was 1995, and I still remember the freedom and rebellion alive in my heart while my hair blew in the wind. From the window of her mom's LeBaron convertible, my friend and I flicked our cigarettes and seemingly our adolescent troubles with them.
Public health
Mental health
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

'My ketamine addiction put me in a Japanese prison'

Ketamine addiction drove Izabel Rose to procure drugs in Japan, leading to five months' imprisonment and a traumatic but ultimately life-changing experience.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Toxic Positivity as a Mask in Covert Narcissism

Toxic positivity in covert narcissism masks vulnerability, leading to chronic anxiety and elevated physiological stress from denied negative emotions.
Social justice
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

Telling stories of gun violence deaths almost cost this reporter his life

Trymaine Lee survived a near-fatal heart attack from chronic stress of reporting Black gun violence, prompting a reckoning and plea to end America's gun lust.
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