Inheritance: Drug Abuse and Addiction with Artist Cuyler Ballenger

Connect with Cuyler: 

Cuylerballenger.com

https://lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibition/cuyler-ballenger/

Instagram: @snake_ballenger 

 

Connect with Lawdale:

lawndaleartcenter.org

Instagram: @lawndaleartcenter

Links From This Episode:

• Crazy Like Us book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crazy-Like-Us/Ethan-Watters/9781416587095
• Crazy Like Us article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html
• CDC opioid overdose stats 1999-2019: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
• SF covid data 2019-2020: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/It-didn-t-have-to-happen-2020-was-15872937.php
• Two research articles that address the relationship between stigma and the biomedical model of psychological suffering https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28942615/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234201/
• Some information about the work of Nan Goldin: https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/nan_goldin/
• Nan Goldin’s protest against the Sackler family: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/nan-goldin-leads-a-protest-at-the-guggenheim-against-the-sackler-family
• The death and life of Dash Snow: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/nyregion/26dash.html
• Research supporting the idea that in monozygotic twins the rate of concordance is 30-40%: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12503715_Twin_studies_in_schizophrenia_with_special_emphasis_on_concordance_figures
• TED talk given by Eleanor Longden, where she shares how talk therapy helped her heal from a diagnosis of Schizophrenia: https://www.ted.com/speakers/eleanor_longden