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The New Yorker Magazine, March 23 1998, the complete issue in gorgeous shape, with no label, no label remnants (it never had a label) and no UPC code, the combination of which is extremely hard to find. Art Spiegelman illustrated the cover. Inside: "Annals of Addiction" (here is the extensive description from The Complete New Yorker): "ANNALS OF ADDICTION about recidivism and Alcoholics Anonymous groups, and in particular about Hazelden Foundation... Describes how patients at Hazelden combatted a ban on coffee by surreptitiously brewing coffee in their rooms... Eventually waste pipes in the Minnesota treatment center became clogged with coffee grinds, and the coffee ban was finally and ingloriously rescinded... Hazelden was disrupted for months just as the foundation's president, Jerry Spicer, had begun to encourage the use of antidepressant drugs and other therapies that are not traditionally part of the twelve-step process... This was an ideological crisis... Mentions selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI.s), like Prozac and Zoloft, which act on depression... Tells about new medications which may help crack addicts... Describes the history of the Hazelden Foundation... Hazelden is the closest thing to the institutional voice of the A.A.-based treatment community... Writer profiles William Cope Moyers, 37, a recent Hazelden alumni who has been in treatment for crack addition three times and now works as Hazelden's director of public policy... Mentions a congressional bill sponsored by two Minnesota legislators, Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone and Republican Representative Jim Ramstad, which would force health-care insurers to fund addiction treatment on a par with other major illnesses. The bill would direct hundreds of millions of insurance dollars a year into the monthlong in-patient programs on which Hazelden has built its reputation... Opponents of the Wellstone-Ramstad bill will point to the shoddy practices and poor results that contributed to the closing of approximately half the treatment centers in America over the past ten years... Mentions the Oxford Group, a religious movement associated with A.A. that attained its greatest influence in the nineteen-twenties and thirties... One reason that Hazelden may find it difficult to accommodate the new drugs that people like Alan Leshner claim with revolutionize the treatment of addiction is that the A.A. philosophy fervently rejects the idea of a "cure." Describes the "recovery culture" of A.A. members who have settled in nearby Minneapolis-St. Paul. It is possible to find a meeting dedicated to almost any addiction at almost any time of the day or night... Mentions the Fellowship Club, an expensive halfway house for Hazelden graduates... Writer cites an unpublished report which suggests that the success rate for the program is below one-third... What the twelve-step program may finally have in common with the new drugs being developed by NIDA is that neither will be able to deliver a cure... Writer interviews Dr. Marilyn Carroll at the University of Minnesota... Mentions an easily-addicted test-monkey whose craving is apparently unaffected by the test-medications administered to him...perhaps the monkey's brain is wired in some unpredictable way. While we are standing there watching him, the monkey's eyes fade and go blank. Then he twists his head around, and his face lights up again as he gazes at the crack pipe inside his cage."
The pages are crisp and clean, without a hint of foxing or any other staining, no writing, nothing missing, tight to the staples. Strictly graded Near Mint; was put away when brand new (along with many others we have) by an obsessive New Yorker collector from whom we acquired it, untouched since new until now. Shipped in an archival sleeve with backing board. The images show the actual magazine you will receive; we do not use stock photos, we do not touch anything up, we do not crop anything, the magazine really is that nice. We have many other beautiful New Yorkers online now so please take a look. If there is an issue you are after please let us know.
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