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Voices on Addiction: The Road Less Traveled By

  • Megan Aronson
  • December 20, 2021
Then the road less traveled by diverged in a wood and took him in the night.
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e

  • Starr Davis
  • January 6, 2021
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
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Voices on Addiction: Letting It Suck

  • Liesl Schwabe
  • August 11, 2020
The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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Voices on Addiction: Primary Source

  • Jennie Burke
  • July 14, 2020
Anything we write now is a primary source.
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah

  • Hannah Hindley
  • January 21, 2020
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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If Love Were Water

  • Hannah Harris
  • February 12, 2019
Can I be blamed for my relief? My anger?
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Voices on Addiction: A Bad Night

  • Barbara Straus Lodge
  • February 3, 2017
Trying to protect him from himself is like trying to protect atmosphere from weather.
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Voices on Addiction: The Only Thing That Has to Change Is Everything

  • Tim Hillegonds
  • December 16, 2016
The word rehab is short for rehabilitate, which means to restore to a former capacity. Like houses, I remember thinking. Demo the kitchen. Tear down the walls.
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The Night Faerie

  • Christopher Locke
  • November 9, 2016
We were all free-falling, and there was no one, nothing, to catch us.
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Voices on Addiction: Surrender

  • Candace Kearns Read
  • September 30, 2016
Somewhere along the way, the salty fresh sea breezes of the beach are replaced by the drier, more metallic air of my mother’s neighborhood. It might as well be a different continent.
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Not an Alcoholic

  • A. Lyn Carol
  • June 20, 2016
Maybe I wasn’t an alcoholic like my father. Maybe I was an alcoholic like… me.
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Missing

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 1, 2016
I long to learn from my darkest teachers, feel the stab of their spectacular rejection. Perhaps I feel most alive when I’m hurting.
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