Tag: Metaphysical
A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin
Books & the Arts
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January 8, 2024
Michael Clune’s White Out is among the most intense and intellectually thrilling books on opiate addiction.
Extracting heroin from poppies on April 10, 1978, in Los Angeles, Calif.
(Photo by Santi Visalli / Getty Images)
The addiction memoir once occupied a space in the culture not far removed from the celebrity tell-all or the polygamous-cult exposé. These books were popular insofar as the experiences they described—the first hits, the rock