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Another news story about the “War on Drugs.”
I just read a county in Ohio had 24 overdoses in 48 hours. Is it me or does that seem a lot?
Jesus…
This not a rant about Trump, this mess goes back to Nixon. There is plenty of blame to share.
The war on drugs has got to end. It’s a dismal failure. It is part of a machine that needs to be dismantled. [Read more…] about The War On Drugs Is Killing ALL of Us
I’ve been thinking about my friend Hector Luis… He didn’t make it. I think about Luis a lot, often. When he died his wife found a number it his wallet, my mom’s old house phone. We’d not seen each other in 20 years, but he always told his wife to call me if he got arrested or in trouble. When she called I was humbled and sad. Deeply sad.
I’m not so sure how we became friends. We met unloading a truck. We worked in a grocery store. He was older than me, married, had a kid. We were sitting in the nose of a trailer full of canned food and huge fifty pound bales of sugar and seventy-five pound bags of rice; drinking warm beer on a really bad for hot summer day. It must have been one hundred and twenty degrees inside that trailer. It was the kind of job on a day that hot when even the boss, a world class dick on most days, made something of apology for making us do it. [Read more…] about Hector Luis, his long road home
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This is a very dark and complex story about a young man named Frankie. He is an amateur boxer, a drug smuggler, an alcoholic and drug addict as well as a murderer. Despite all his faults I found myself really liking him [Read more…] about The Third Step, has been getting some powerful reviews
October 28, 1993… that was the day I dumped the last of my Oxy, Percodan, Xanax and sweet Seconal down the toilet. God, I do love Oxy and vodka. Vodka is like air to me.
But, on that day, 23 years ago, I simply could not puke and bleed and shake anymore. [Read more…] about Twenty Three Years of Sobriety, But the Day Ain’t Over Yet
