“Recovery and decline: True stories from an ICU,” is an interactive comic that explores the impact of addiction and substance use disorder on ICU nurses and hospital employees.
The Globe Opinion piece was written by Ernesto Barbieri, a registered nurse whose writing has appeared in The Believer, Iowa Review, Midway Journal, Fourteen Hills, Berkeley Fiction Review, and elsewhere. It was illustrated by Jess Ruliffson, a graphic journalist based in Boston who teaches at Boston University.
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