"Dispatches from the Adderall Epidemic."
"Are celebrity surgeons boosting awareness or their own brand?"
"More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?"
https://longreads.com/2024/03/23/the-children-who-lost-limbs-in-gaza/
"Now I rarely let myself think of those Before Times. Describing what was once my life is like trying to recapture a sensation, a place that only ever existed in a dream."
"Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives."
"Cystic fibrosis once guaranteed an early death—but a medical breakthrough has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?"
An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back.
https://longreads.com/2024/01/04/damages-atavist-magazine-obgyn-malpractice/
"Douglas Randall Smith would have you believe he’s on the verge of a medical breakthrough that could end the opioid epidemic and keep millions of people alive."
"Some neuroscientists now believe that the drugs’ mental-health benefits don’t come from tripping."
https://longreads.com/2023/11/11/what-if-psychedelics-hallucinations-are-just-a-side-effect/
"Researchers mined an old drug forum and fed the entries to an AI. The result could augur a new class of psychedelic-based antidepressants."
https://longreads.com/2023/10/04/the-great-psychedelic-experiment/