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Nov 25, 2024 | 
filtermag.org | Charlie Baker
Over my 21 years of using opioids I’ve often joked to myself that I don’t have a drug problem, I have a running-out-of-money problem. In the mid-aughts when I was buying Opana (oxymorphone) and Dilaudid (hydromorphone) off the street, my tolerance was under control in the sense that the pills were working fine for me. Because they’re a sure thing. As long as you’re dealing with legitimate pharmaceuticals, you know what you’re getting every time.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
filtermag.org | Charlie Baker
Since early 2023, I’ve been surfing my way across what feels like every New Jersey substance use treatment facility that takes Medicaid. In that time I’ve worked my way down from 140 mg methadone per day to 60 mg. I’m about to check in to lucky number 13, which will hopefully be the last one before I get down to 30 mg and make the jump to buprenorphine.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
medium.com | Charlie Baker
Charlie Baker·Follow15 min read·--Reflecting on the complex dimensions of agriculture reformFall Afternoon on Wolfe’s Neck in Freeport, Maine“Man is a singular creature.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Charlie Baker | |Stephen Smith |John Phipps
An editorial pow-wow Is he the most handsome man in British media? Does he helm the Original Style Bible? Yes and yes. Here’s a snippet from a summit with Morecambe’s finest, in which our editor interviews the editor of The Face, Matthew Whitehouse. *CB: The Face, along with Private Eye, is one of the only British publications that has a global reputation. When you got the job as editor, did you feel under pressure?
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Fiona Mozley |Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker
Why do people drink their own piss? I’ve often wondered if childhood fears reveal something deep about our psyche; whether our adult choices are somehow wrapped up in them. When I was a child, I was fascinated and horrified by stories of people stranded in deserts. Someone would be driving along a long road and their engine would fail. They would be stuck, torn between leaving the vehicle to find help and following the advice to stay with it. My primary fear was the unquenchable thirst.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
freespins.pro | Charlie Baker
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and former governor, now NCAA president, Charlie Baker joined forces Thursday to unveil an initiative aimed at tackling the burgeoning issue of youth sports gambling in the state. Campbell, addressing the assembled press, sounded the alarm on the dangers posed by the rapid expansion of sports betting, particularly among the youth.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
nytimespost.com | Charlie Baker
Former NCAA women’s swimmer Riley Gaines was not at the House sub-committee hearing on NIL Thursday in Washington D.C., but her argument against transgender women competing in women’s sports was. And NCAA president Charlie Baker couldn’t hide from the questions by Republican Congresswoman Debbie Lesko of Arizona about Gaines’ continuing campaign and her two unanswered letters to Baker.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
dailyyonder.com | Charlie Baker
As a retired child-welfare professional, I no longer spend my days working with abused and neglected children, but they are never far from my mind. Certainly not after the three excellent books about them that I’ve read recently. The Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot is the journey of one smart and resourceful young lady living in New York City who was the victim of dozens of “interventions” at the hands of city, state and federal systems of child welfare as she tried to grow into adulthood.
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May 5, 2023 | 
thehill.com | Charlie Baker
San Diego State guard Lamont Butler, center, celebrates with teammates after he hit the winning basket against Florida Atlantic during the second half of a Final Four college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, April 1, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/Godofredo A.
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
stagewhispers.com.au | Charlie Baker
By Siobhan Wright. Directed by Charlie Baker and Siobhan Wright. Roxy Lane Theatre, Maylands, WA. March 10-19, 2023 Time Pieces is a season of two very different one act plays, both by local writer Siobhan Wright. The first, Ring Ring, is a play made up almost entirely of phone conversations, directed by Charlie Baker. The second play, Maggie and the Magic Lamp is a lighter play, set at Christmas, that sits somewhere between an episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys and a seasonal pantomime.
