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The first computer programmer was an uneducated opiate addict

The early Victorian Era was hardly a time for women to be cocky about their brilliance. But Countess Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, didn’t care. Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program a ... read more

Ada Lovelace: Opium, maths and the Victorian programmer

Ms Lovelace is widely described as the world's first computer programmer because of her work with inventor ... Ada Lovelace was often unwell and was prescribed the opiate laudanum, to be taken with ... read more

The Rush to Prohibit Kratom

Kratom was first documented as an opiate substitute—a kind of ... who'd made a lot of money as a computer programmer and was married to a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. Jeff used to be addicted to ... read more

How my life has changed since becoming a drug addict at 17

An opiate addiction wasn’t a cheap habit to have ... ever gonna take that feeling away from you - until it’s out of your system. At first, before the real addiction kicked in, the world just felt dull ... read more

The Park City story: One boy died, then another — and the opioid epidemic came into full view

After Grant died, she confiscated Ryan’s computer. Ryan didn’t resist ... “I started using drugs and got addicted,” he told the judge. “We got desperate to get more opiates, so we decided to order ... read more

History review: Get immersed in the data on digital pioneers with ‘The Innovators,’ by Walter Isaacson

At the same time, Grace Hopper pioneered ideas such as the use of subroutines and compilers and, inspired by Babbage and Lovelace’s work, produced the world’s first computer programming manual, for ... read more

Heroin: Small cities, even rural towns face growing problems

But heroin raises additional concerns because, like other opiates ... works as a computer programmer, makes speeches about drugs, and works with support groups for parents whose children are ... read more

The Psychedelic Cure

"When you take opiates ... taking classes in computer programming. "I couldn't believe it, but it's true," Marcel says sadly. "That stuff works." The question remains: How? What does ibogaine do to ... read more

The Life and Death of My Toxic Father

In the first photo of him taken in this country ... the investment banker who lied to me about his live-in fiancée, the computer programmer who left to go back to work after I shared my plan for ... read more

With New Baby Coming, A N.J. Mother Heals After Heroin

Her mother, Pat, was a Holmdel teacher, and father, Rich, was a computer programmer ... went home and took a road trip that led to her first arrest. She ran away to Asbury Park, with her growing crack ... read more

Why Mr. 9x Loves Mr. Robot

As the show’s second season heats up, Inverse asked programmers ... addict, and several characters use or abuse various drugs throughout the show. Elliot smokes weed frequently, but his main drug of ... read more

Remnant of the War on Poverty, Job Corps Is Still a Quiet Success

Ms. Campbell and Mr. Helton were part of a growing army of American young people so uneducated, unskilled ... is working toward her high school equivalency diploma, studying computer programming, ... read more