The Weird Sisters of Centro Clinic
Three witches preside over the methadone clinic. Their weird magic keeps the viscous methadone syrup flowing through the temperamental machines that dispense it. The Three Sisters' pulsing power prevents fights over girls and drug debts; it sometimes cleans urine samples of the illegal drugs present in them (especially when freedom is at stake), and it ensures that the door to the facility's only single-occupancy restroom unlocks itself when someone is overdosing inside...
2 days ago10 min read
![The chemical structure of the opioid SR-17018, whose full name is 5,6-dichloro-1-(1-(4-chlorobenzyl)piperidin-4-yl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-one.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6cc57b_ad00bc2577934afa9b419309044f328f~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_371,h_420,fp_0.50_0.50,lg_1,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/6cc57b_ad00bc2577934afa9b419309044f328f~mv2.png)
![The chemical structure of the opioid SR-17018, whose full name is 5,6-dichloro-1-(1-(4-chlorobenzyl)piperidin-4-yl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-one.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6cc57b_ad00bc2577934afa9b419309044f328f~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_371,h_420,fp_0.50_0.50,lg_1,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/6cc57b_ad00bc2577934afa9b419309044f328f~mv2.png)
SR-17018: Great Promise; A Grave Warning
SR-17018 has been hailed as a "magic bullet" fix for opioid addiction, which can produce painkilling effects without tolerance or risk of overdose. Is the hype justified?
Nov 305 min read
I'm Back
Fall 2025 life updates: Going viral on YouTube; Trump's E.O. criminalizing harm reduction services; my writing projects and methadone taper.
Nov 67 min read
Still Alive; On Summer Hiatus
For the first time since I started this blog, I'm taking a break. Catch you on the flip side!
Jul 131 min read
The Stress-Performance Curve for Civilization
It's past time to reevaluate the social contract. Unprecedented social ills, including record-breaking levels of mental illness and addiction, secondary to a widespread, pernicious breakdown in community have led to more people feeling adrift, empty, and angry than ever before. Is the fix about optimizing our individual interactions with social systems, or is the only possible cure systemic change?
Jul 67 min read
No Ordinary Piece of Wood
A scene sketch that I wrote to help me develop two characters who have been in my head for a while. I'm disappointed by the representation of relationships between gay men and straight women in modern fiction; typically, such relationships are peripheral to gay or straight love stories, and they tend to present as lukewarm cliches. I think that there's room for something both darker and deeper - a dynamic that I've tried to get at through Luke and Lila in the story below.
Jun 2910 min read
Reaction Vid: Pam Bondi Saved My Life (and 258 Million Other Americans')!
In an epic stroke of idiocy, Attorney General Pam Bondi asserts that the fentanyl seized at the border over the past three months has saved 258 million U.S. citizens' lives (current U.S. population: 340.1 million).
Jun 152 min read
