By Cassie Rodenberg | January 10th, 2013 |
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Sonya and Eric live in the basement apartment of a three-level row house, a space rented from the drug [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
December 31st, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- I’ve become more tied to street-level addiction in 2012, and I often get many queries in life and in [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
December 31st, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Neecy clean. Photo courtesy of Chris Arnade. Neecy had been a lot of things lately: dead from a john’s [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
December 27th, 2012 |
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In lieu of this month’s events in Connecticut and beyond, it’s my privilege to lend my platform to another voice, one who runs alongside the mission of this blog, and one of the smartest scientists and bravest people I know. Please read the post below, and for my view on violence, mental health and public [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
December 20th, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Takeesha. Photo courtesy of Chris Arnade. Just before Christmas, Takeesha got a new apartment, one just across the expressway [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
November 23rd, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- This year, I invited people from Hunts Point, Bronx to my Queens apartment for Thanksgiving. Michael, a homeless transsexual [...]
Keep reading »By Cassie Rodenberg | November 14th, 2012 |
A Princeton lab’s doing something interesting — trying to figure out where amphetamines collect in the brain, to really understand them, in a helpful sort of way that gets at the problem of addiction. Ethan Perlstein is using a crowdfunding model to raise money for his lab’s initiative, unconventional but necessary in a system that [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
November 13th, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Last week, Chris and I visited a crack house, Diana and John’s apartment. Here’s a 10-minute look inside, at [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
November 12th, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Addicts, by nature, lead lives as vagrants of some description to cope — in search of a new doctor [...]
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By Cassie Rodenberg |
October 31st, 2012 |
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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in NYC. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Emily, Jackson Heights. Photo courtesy of Chris Arnade. Her eyes were frightening, wide, confrontational, their color stolen by lenses the shade [...]
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