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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well
Independence
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From: On Opium
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The author explores her relationship with her chronic pain and the tension between independence and dependence on prescription opiods, at first rationing relief. She parses the moral underpinnings of various methods of pain acceptance, concluding that for a person with physical dependence on an opioid, a reliable source of untainted, known-dose opioids can be not only stability-restoring but a profound tool to enable independence.
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Carlyn Zwarenstein
Carlyn Zwarenstein is a writer based in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Toronto Star, and Vice. She is also the author of Opium Eater: The New Confessions.
