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#37: Just Say No.
A walk around the block on a drizzly Wednesday in Spring.
#31: You can check out any time you like.
But it can be really really hard to leave. Dealing with a serious illness is challenging for anyone. So is addiction. So is being stuck in a toxic…
#29: "There's No Success Like Failure...
"And failure's no success at all." [No Expectations #3]
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#25: Do Not Pass Go...
[A letter from jail...]
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#22: Christmas at the Clinic.
On any given day, 300-350 people show up at the addiction treatment clinic about a mile from downtown to get their daily dose of either Methadone or…
#19: Yesterday was Jake's 200th Drug Free Day.
It's been almost a year for Trish and a few months less for AJ.
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#14: Fentanyl, Heroin, Suboxone, Methadone.
The following is a lightly edited transcription of what one couple on the street told me about addiction, addictive behavior, and medication-assisted…
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#13: The (Street) Gospel According to Kenneth #1.
I always thought getting off drugs was a binary situation...you were doing heroin/fentanyl or you were doing Suboxone (or methadone). It's not that…
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#12: No Expectations. Part 2.
About Fentanyl, Suboxone, and the painful everyday reality of trying to get free of hard drugs. And the stories of people who live it.
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#1: Ain't No Then No More.
My inscrutably shape-shifting relationship with Melvin.
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