Tag: Drug addiction
The city has paid a $300,000 settlement to the family of a now-deceased Rikers Island inmate who was paralyzed from the waist down after doctors failed to adequately treat his severe fungal infection, DNAInfo reports. Jose Ferrer, who died in 2010, was incarcerated at Rikers Island in August 2008 for failing to complete a drug […]
Panic in the Chalk Cave, slang for a downward spiral into meth addiction, is the title of NY artist Zefrey Throwell‘s current solo exhibition at the Gasser Grunert. As you might suspect, the drug addiction theme heavily pervades the show, from Time Stau, a gritty short film about a couple’s drug-fueled romance, to At last… […]
