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The People Have a Right to Enjoy Their Parks Apr. 25, 2024
Public parks belong to the public, right? A billionaire can't cordon off an acre of Golden Gate Park... Read More
Finding Peace After a Loved One Loses Their Battle to Addiction Apr. 08, 2024
Dear Readers: A great many of you wrote in with stories of your own about the pain of caring for a l... Read More
Taking Responsibility for Sex Addiction Apr. 03, 2024
Dear Annie: My own experience tells me that your advice to Starving Wife may have overlooked another... Read More
Haunted by Granddaughter's Addiction and Death Mar. 16, 2024
Dear Annie: Our granddaughter had been on drugs for several years. She had been in and out of jail a... Read More
Saving: An Acquired Addiction Mar. 12, 2024
As personality traits go, "compulsive" and "addictive" are not generally considered all that terrifi... Read More
Coping With an Alcoholic Spouse Jan. 31, 2024
Dear Annie: I just read the letter from "Anonymous" concerning his alcoholic wife and his inability ... Read More
Sobriety Success Story Jan. 29, 2024
Dear Annie: My daughter shared your column with me this morning. The letter from the "Anonymous" hus... Read More
Boyfriend's Kids Give Me the Cold Shoulder Jan. 26, 2024
Dear Annie: My husband's family have always been big drinkers, whereas mine are not. We have very di... Read More
Sister Abuses Alcohol and Me Jan. 25, 2024
Dear Annie: I was, not for the first time, physically assaulted by my sister on Christmas a couple o... Read More
Partner's Parents' Drinking Keeps Them From Their Granddaughter Dec. 09, 2023
Dear Annie: My partner and I were surprised to find ourselves expecting with my very loved rainbow b... Read More
The One Where Matthew Perry Determines His Legacy Nov. 03, 2023
Since Matthew Perry died last week, I've seen countless clips in my social media feed of his work as... Read More
Don't Aid and Abet Addiction in Colorado Oct. 11, 2023
Call them needle exchanges; call them safe-use sites; sugar-coat them as "overdose prevention center... Read More
Horse Sense Sep. 13, 2023
A new study reports that adolescents who are inpatients at opioid addiction treatment centers are mo... Read More
Husband Has Become a Man I Hardly Recognize Sep. 05, 2023
Dear Annie: I'm 40 years old and tired of having my siblings always telling me what to do. This has ... Read More
'Safe Use' Sites? Call Them 'Suicide' Sites Sep. 04, 2023
The word from the Capitol this week is that state lawmakers might try again to legalize "safe use" s... Read More
A Netflix Drama Reinforces Pernicious Misconceptions About Pain Treatment: 'Painkiller' Reflects an Indiscriminate Anti-Opioid Bias That Has Caused Needless Suffering Aug. 24, 2023
Former New York Times reporter Barry Meier, whose book about OxyContin is the main basis for the Net... Read More
A Netflix Drama Reinforces Pernicious Misconceptions About Pain Treatment: 'Painkiller' Reflects an Indiscriminate Anti-Opioid Bias That Has Caused Needless Suffering Aug. 23, 2023
Former New York Times reporter Barry Meier, whose book about OxyContin is the main basis for the Net... Read More
One Day at a Time, One Year Later Aug. 20, 2023
In a year, the only real dicey interaction came during dinner with a parent of my kids' friend. He o... Read More
Blowin' Smoke: Hunter's Hubris Heightens GOP Hooey Aug. 15, 2023
Just to compound the other serious mistakes he has made in his life, Hunter Biden made the mistake l... Read More
I Made a Really Bad Mistake and Now Feel Worthless Aug. 03, 2023
DR. WALLACE: Unfortunately, I'm addicted to a substance that I now know is not good for me. It's als... Read More
