On Sobriety: The Evolution of a Drug Addict

This essay is about nar­cotics and oth­er life­sav­ing therapies.

I dat­ed a func­tion­ing cocaine addict once and we almost got mar­ried. Al. That was his real name and I’m remem­ber­ing it now because it is tat­tooed on my bicep and sev­en years removed from the rela­tion­ship, I still don’t regret doing it. He was my blue­print love. My first hit. Lov­ing him was the kind of high addicts spend the rest of their nat­ur­al lives chas­ing. Read More on Human Parts…