Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman. Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car accident and was prescribed pain pills. Not long after that, she began using heroin. Over the next decade she ... Show More
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Sunday Special: Wicked, Good?
<p>“Wicked” was one of the biggest movies of 2024. It was culturally ubiquitous, a box office smash and an Oscar nominee for Best Picture. Now, a year later, “Wicked: For Good” arrives in theaters to finish the tale of the complicated friendship between Glinda the Good Witch and ... Show More
51m 44s
Oct 2024
Addiction aux opioïdes : Diane Wattrelos raconte comment elle est devenue addict au tramadol
<p>Diane Wattrelos, 34 ans, souffre d’une maladie neurologique rare et extrêmement douloureuse, une algie vasculaire de la face, depuis qu’elle a 14 ans. Pour calmer la douleur, les médecins lui prescrivent dès les premières crises du tramadol, un médicament de la famille des opi ... Show More
15m 51s
Dec 2024
Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
In 1929, the United States government approved two ground-breaking and controversial drug addiction treatment programs. At a time when fears about a supposed rise in drug use reached a fevered pitch, the emergence of the nation’s first “narcotic farms” in Fort Worth, Texas, and L ... Show More
44m 28s
Jun 2024
The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Recovery is Possible: Stories of Hope and Healing
<p>In this episode, Tudor discusses addiction with Pat Roos, who lost her son to a drug overdose, and Christina Dent, a foster mom of a baby with a drug-addicted mother. They emphasize that addiction can happen to anyone, regardless of their background or values. They advocate fo ... Show More
46m 40s
Feb 2025
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
In 2015, Patricia Roos’s twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex: A ... Show More
1h 13m