For context, I’ve been a subscriber to that site pretty much since it launched, and just re-upped for three more years this past summer.

Oh yes...you were just “pointing out the problems”.

No, it’s a tragic anecdote about a peron who tragically could not control herself.

You have absolutely no goddamned idea what you’re talking about w/re: public health care policy or addiction.

At first I thought you were trolling, but now I’m convinced you’re actually just a miserable person who is jealous that someone could be cared about enough to be memorialized even with the way her life ended

This was a compelling and heartbreaking read. The two salient subtexts to my mind are how mental illness is largely swept under the rug in America (until it progresses too far and ends in death or incarceration, surely an indelible stain on American healthcare and society), and secondly - and I suggest a reason why…

Fantastically well written. I just can’t help but wonder if so many of her feature articles were about someone trying to come back after a battle with addiction because she was trying to see if there was a path she could follow. As always, writers reveal way more of themselves in their writing than they think.