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Motivating Addicts — and Their Doctors
By Jessica Cohen
How doctors can be retrained to use empathy in addiction treatment programs for better success with patients and with themselves.
Prescription Painkiller Abuse in Small-Town Colorado
By Paige Blankenbuehler, from High Country News
When a private pain clinic, High Country Medical, opened in downtown Craig, Colorado, it sparked an opioid addiction crisis that has yet to end.
Remembering Brenda Ueland's Words
By Eric Utne
Memorializing Brenda Ueland through community-building.
Conversation Requires Listening
By Eric Utne
A real conversation expands you, deepens you, makes you feel more alive, more fully human.
As You Come Home: Immigration, Reunion, and the Continuity of Power
By Chris Shorne
In search of human rights in the Guatemala and the United States of America.
Residential Realtors Prevent Decline of Detroit Neighborhoods
By Kimberly Kinder
Detroit residents learned to become informal realtors to keep foreclosures from being targeted by scrappers and drug dealers.
Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish
By James Hoggan with Thich Nhat Hanh, from I’m Right and You’re an Idiot
In a world full of divisive issues, the principles of Vietnamese Monks attempt to build a unified and understanding community.
Signs of Intelligent Life
By Sam Mowe, from The Sun
Ecologist Carl Safina’s evidence that other animals think and feel.
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