<i>More than you were</i>: writing my father’s life, death and addiction

Thank you for saving my life.

'You fix my community, you have fixed my life': the disruption and rebuilding of ontological security in New Orleans.

Using the concept of ontological security, this paper examines the physical and psychological loss of home and community following Hurricane Katrina. This qualitative longitudinal study includes 40 heads of households with school-age children who lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Participants describe a breakdown in their social fabric at the individual and structural/community lev...

Methamphetamine Cured my Cocaine Addiction.

Cocaine dependence is an enduring problem and years of research and drug development has yet to produce an efficacious pharmacotherapy. Recent clinical research suggests that chronic treatment with amphetamine-like medications produces tolerance to cocaine's reinforcing effects and may offer a viable pharmacotherapy. Three methamphetamine-dependent participants that had been in our clinical lab...

Te contaria mi vida: I would tell you my life, if only you would ask.

Universal screening for domestic violence is recommended in many health care settings. This qualitative study was undertaken to explore the thoughts and feelings of Mexican American women regarding being asked questions about domestic violence by a health care provider. We wanted to further explore what characteristics about a nurse, or other health care provider, would give a woman confianza, ...

Are you pulling my airway?

E xcessive airway narrowing is a hallmark of asthma. This is due to unencumbered shortening of airway smooth muscle, leading to severe airways obstruction and even closure of airways. Remarkably, in healthy subjects, this does not occur, and there is little doubt that the explanation of this apparent ‘‘protection’’ in normal subjects will be essential for our understanding of asthma. Parenchyma...