by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
How Should Doctors Help Terminally Ill Patients Prepare for Death? But over the past few weeks, the story of Brittany Maynard — a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal brain cancer who has chosen to end her life on Nov. 1 rather than allow the disease to progress...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
The Addicts Next Door At this stage of the American opioid epidemic, many addicts are collapsing in public—in gas stations, in restaurant bathrooms, in the aisles of big-box stores. ...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
I have suicidal thoughts, but I’m not suicidal. Yes, you read that correctly, and if you’ve ever been in that state of mind, you didn’t have to read that sentence twice....
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
OxyContin Maker will Stop Promoting Opioids to Doctors The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, bowing to a key demand of lawsuits that blame the company for helping trigger the current drug abuse epidemic....
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
Suffering and Letting Go Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not. Suffering arises from grasping. Release grasping and be free...
