By Drake Baer — 2017
‘The success addict needs constant validation.’
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CLEAR ALL
Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
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“Even where I live in St. Paul, known nationally for being the ‘crossroads of recovery,’” William said, “the stigma prevents people from thinking about alcoholics and other drug addicts as ‘good people with a bad illness.’”
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"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."
Despite a culture organizing to oppose shaming, it remains inevitable. But it doesn’t have to ruin lives.
I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.