Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers

Big Pharma KILLS, and She knows it! –

Jan. 22, 2018 – The celebrated photographer was sitting in the press room of the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building, a spot that she suggested because of her love of crime dramas and, perhaps, out of a long interest in bearing witness to parts of life often relegated to the shadowy margins … Nan Goldin shuddered as she recalled her anguish in early 2017 while kicking a three-year OxyContin habit. She pulled the long sleeves of her black shirt down to her wrists, then wrung her hands. “Your own skin revolts against you,” she said. “Every part of yourself is in terrible pain.”
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