Becky Blanton [pic from her website ] There is a wonderfully interesting article, posted to Salon yesterday, titled " When my car was the safest place to live ," that explains addiction and rehab right, from my knowledge of and observation of many of the great guys I know that have (or had) addiction problems and have experienced rehab at the mission. [I, myself, don't have an addiction problem - I should report - so I don't know the experience firsthand.] Here is the 'money' quote, for me, explaining the problem of being addicted and the cycling in and out of rehab: Thousands of alcoholics and addicts walk away from jobs, family, fortunes and seemingly stable lives every day. It is the nature of addiction. It is the nature of being human. Most addicts walk away from rehab, for that matter, or go through several cycles of rehab before being clean and sober finally sticks. What people don't realize about Ted [a homeless man in the news, recently, ...
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