When is this dangerous, inhumane madness going to end? Which madness?
The worldwide madness of perpetuating hypocritical, fundamentally inhumane policies called: War on Drugs?
Thailand this year announced a re-newal of their ‘War on Drugs,’ which saw a tripling of their prison population since 2000, and thousands of documented extra-judiciary killing by police of suspected drugs dealers [...]

“They are in jail because they want to be…” says the man next to me at the Roasting Company, where I sit researching the long-term psychological impacts of incarceration. “People in prison…they are there because they want to be there,” he repeats.
“That’s not my experience,” I reply to my coffee-shop [...]

How to start this? There is no beginning, no middle.
Only snapshots of pain, messy moments, lives unravelling, clutching and grasping at the edges, trying to hold the pieces together…..sinking….
A thousand moments of hanging up the phone on a drunk, incoherent man and asking him not to contact me until he goes to treatment. A thousand times reminding my mother to take her pills [...]