Medication-assisted treatment has been controversial in the United States because opioid recovery drugs like buprenorphine (also known by the brand name Suboxone) and methadone are opioids themselves. While they do not generate a high at a prescribed dosage, they help satisfy cravings and reduce withdrawal symptoms as patients seek to cut back and quit heroin,…
They didn’t plan this. Sofia Wylie, 18, who plays the good-at-heart, if witchily named, Agatha in the new Netflix fantasy film “The School for Good and Evil,” pops onto the Zoom call swaddled in a tan-and-white blanket, a cheery, sunlit room with white walls and a gray couch in her Salt Lake City home behind…
In this week’s Modern Love essay, “Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows,” Kevin Hershey describes the six weeks he spent tending to his Irish grandmother in her Catholic senior living apartment. Mr. Hershey’s grandmother had decided to die by starvation. A recent college graduate without a job or much of a purpose,…
Charlie Dulik and Michael Nicholas, tennis enthusiasts in Brooklyn, have lately been consumed by another racquet sport: pickleball. They have no interest in joining those who have taken up the game in recent years. Rather, they have been following pickleball’s increasing popularity with a mixture of disbelief and outrage. Mr. Dulik, a tenant organizer, and…
If you were to place an order this week at a restaurant that exclusively served viral foods, here’s what you’d be eating: a salad tossed in a special dressing made by Olivia Wilde; an omelet made with only egg yolks; and a Negroni Sbagliato to wash it all down. Let’s begin with the salad. If…
Writing by hand seems to be increasingly obsolete, thanks to the urgency of everyday tasks and our reliance on cellphones, tablets and computers. At The Times, the trusty reporter’s notebook — the narrow spiral-bounds whipped out for quick interviews — is more often these days an electronic device. One result of this shift? Worsening handwriting…
Early this month, the World Health Organization’s director said that ingredients in four cold and cough syrups made in India may have been linked to acute kidney injuries and the deaths of 66 children in Gambia — and that the products may have been distributed to other countries. Days later, the authorities in India began…
Anyone who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s will almost certainly have the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk commercials stamped on their subconscious, alongside their best friend’s landline. But Santa Cruz is much more than a West Coast Coney Island. (The Boardwalk, incidentally, is California’s oldest amusement park and is a…
Claire always knew that she wanted to start a family. But as a transgender woman who just turned 41, she also knew it could be complicated. Claire and her partner discussed having a baby together and, if possible, they wanted to use her sperm and her partner’s egg. But Claire, who spoke on the condition…
Every corner of the turkey market is stretched thin. Restaurants can’t get orders filled. Deli owners are scrambling to find sliced turkey breast. Shoppers are paying as much as 112 percent more for fresh, skinless turkey breasts than they were last year. The fast-food chain Arby’s is warning customers that turkey sandwiches are not available…