Voices on Addiction: The Monster’s Matchstick Mistress
I want to see myself as a whole person.
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Posts Tagged: rehabilitation
Voices on Addiction: Letting It Suck
The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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Voices on Addiction: The Only Thing That Has to Change Is Everything
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 Sunday Rumpus Essay: Last Chance out of Jonestown
An addict struggles to forgive himself for the violence he sowed.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sabine Heinlein
Journalist Sabine Heinlein, author of Among Murderers: Life After Prison, discusses the challenges ex-cons encounter on their journeys to freedom and the various ways they live with their remorse.
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