I know. This picture doesn’t convey anything morbid, but that’s the funny thing about life–we don’t usually think in these terms. Unless, like Mark Hoppus, you struggle with depression.  

Ok, so I live in Florida and shop at Publix Supermarket. I’ve shopped at the nearby Publix and written checks there for over 20 years. I’ve never bounced a check

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Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient Ok, so I’m trying to help my father self-publish his book. He hired a top sportswriter for the LA Times to ghostwrite it and it’s

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient  I finally figured this out. Scott’s drug of choice was heroin and he struggled like hell to get off it and come back from countless

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Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient OMG, I’m depressed. On the 1-10 scale, I’m probably a 5. My brain is scattered. So much so that I worry I’m losing my memory.

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient Teva Pharmaceuticals is the latest of seven drug manufacturers to file suit against the Department of Health and Human Services over the Medicare Part D

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient We put up this website with the help of a friend. Now we have to design it! We know there are people (and bots) available

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient Sometimes I think writers are selfish. Let me explain-right before Christmas, a friend who said he’d help me with my website blew off my emails,

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient It’s bad enough standing in line at Starbucks, but you know you’re depressed when you go to the DMV and everyone seems to be smiling

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient So it’s the beginning of the year and I knew my meds would cost more. But I wasn’t prepared for one of my psych meds

Allison Strong The Radioactive Patient This book started out as a discussion of trauma, but it quickly moved into short stories that were chapters.  Learning experiences, stories about Kurt Cobain