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Gratifying delusions (like that we're in touch with "reality") are so addictive, we tend to hang onto them no matter what they cost us.
by Lynn Phillips

Addict Addiction

By Lynn Phillips on August 21, 2009 in Dream On

Michael Jackson is the mainstream's latest dead drug casualty idol; Dash Snow, the 27 year old bad boy who recently overdosed on heroin is Downtown's rival version. Addiction is neither pretty nor touching, but when addicts are, can modern science cure our culture's romantic attatchment to them?

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Lynn Phillips

Lynn Phillips is the author of Self-Loathing for Beginners. She has written (sometimes as "Maggie Cutler") for a wide variety of publications, from The Nation to The New York Times's Magazine.

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