New York's City Council has finally voted to ban carriage horses. It's time to bid farewell to this bit of nostalgia and retire these hard-working horses, but their drivers also deserve fair treatment.

In 2015, my college roommate lost her life to addiction and an accidental fentanyl overdose. Her sister Nadia's memoir, Dear Dealer, has thrust Sasha into the limelight, put her own family under the microscope, and left those of us who loved her asking whether or not we did enough.