The antibiotic is usually the easy part. Men leave an STI appointment with a treatment plan and a clear sense of what happens next medically, and then sit in the truck for twenty minutes trying…
The rotation has its own rhythm and most men working one know it well. The first few days back at camp are fine. By the middle of the hitch the days have flattened into each…
Two objections come up more or less every time opioid agonist therapy is raised. The first is that it amounts to trading one drug for another. The second is that it means being tied to…
Most men in this situation do not use the word abuse. They describe a partner with a temper, or say things get heated, or explain that they are just not very good at handling conflict.…
It usually starts as one trip, somewhere around three in the morning. Then it is two trips, then three, and eventually a man realises he has not slept more than ninety minutes at a stretch…
The appointment where a man is told his prostate cancer has been treated successfully is supposed to be the end of the story. For a lot of men it is the start of a different…
The decision usually arrives quietly. A man looks at how many nights of the week involve drinking, or notices that the first one of the evening has stopped being optional, and decides that Monday is…
It usually starts at a predictable time. The truck is quiet on the drive home, or the lights are off and sleep is not coming, and the mind goes back to the same thing it…
High blood pressure is almost always found by accident. A man goes in about a sore shoulder, or for a driver's medical, or to have a cut looked at, and the cuff reading comes back…
A great many men who end up dependent on opioids started the same way: a back injury on a rig, a shoulder rebuilt after years of overhead work, a bad break set in an emergency…
