Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.