In sickness and in health
Some examples of my work on health, disease, and madness.
Untangling Addiction
Psychiatrist Marv Seppala helps drug addicts and alcoholics thread
their way back to sobriety by leading them down a path to recovery
he walked himself.
Portland Monthly, April, 2007.
A dose of
realism on vaccines
Review of Vaccine, by Arthur Allen
The Oregonian, February 18, 2007.
By any other
name
Euthanasia in Oregon: just don't mention suicide
The Economist, February 17, 2007.
Scars Fade, Memories
Don't
Can survivors of torture recover from their traumatic memories?
Willamette Week, June 1, 2005.
The Deadly Cure
State health cops investigate surge of methadone overdoses.
Willamette Week, May 28, 2003.
Mercury
Falling
How the Homeland Security Act innoculated drug makers against autism
lawsuits.
Willamette Week, Nov 27 2002.
Sense and Sinsemilla
Is medical marijuana real, or is it just a great way to get over
on the man?
Willamette Week, April 4, 2002.
The Truth is
out There
Don't call them contrails--they're chemtrails, and they're part
of an interplanetary plot...
Willamette Week, Sept 26, 2001.
The Girl
from Electra
How Treva Throneberry convinced the world she was a teenage runaway--again
and again and again.
Willamette Week, June 27, 2001.
Junkie Angel
Ex-dope fiends like Alan Levine may be Portland's strongest weapon
in the fight against the needle.
Willamette Week, December 5, 2000.
The Guinea
Pigs' Rebellion
Psychiatric patients flex their political muscle.
Willamette Week, Sept 1, 1999.
The Poisoned
Well
A toxic plume of industrial solvent may have sickened thousands
of workers at a Beaverton toy factory.
Willamette Week, Jan 6 1999.
Flesh and
Blood
Health officials investigate outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria
among Portland drug addicts.
Willamette Week, Dec 22, 1998.
Doctors
for Sale
Welcome to the world of injury litigation, where every victim is
a suspect and every twinge has a price tag.
Willamette Week, Nov 13 1996.
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