Pain and Suffering
The extraordinary power of opium products to alleviate pain is complicated by the language of addiction.
Ann Neumann is the author of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America, a visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, and a former editor in chief of the center’s publication, The Revealer, where she is currently a contributing editor. Neumann is a contributing nonfiction editor at Guernica magazine. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Guardian, New York Law Review, BookForum, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Guernica, and elsewhere. She’s at annneumann.com and @otherspoon.