Damien / Sober Boots
I Am Not My Addiction…
Tracy Chabala / TracyChabala•com
I Am So Much More
We are more than alcoholics. We are more than drug addicts. We are more than the dually diagnosed.
But it’s easy to forget this.
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by K. Lanktree / Studio L Online
Like most, I never anticipated having to face addiction or homelessness. Neither issue could possibly ever effect me, right? I grew up in a good home, have wonderful parents and family, attended school and got good grades, had a well paying job, married my soul mate and we were settling in to our new life. Destroying relationships, losing everything, ending up homeless and injecting literally every last cent I had ever earned into my veins was certainly not in my plans. No one 'plans' on addiction or homelessness.
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by Geoff Kane, MD, MPH