In the Grip
A child’s addiction. A family’s journey.
My hope is that telling this part of our story will open a conversation with someone who needs it. My words here are real, written through pain but told so we can start to unshackle ourselves from the stigma of addiction.
The most important thing to know is you're not on this path alone. There are thousands of people exactly where you are and if we put our voices together we can help each other through.
the chosen one
During one night shift we heard a soft knocking on the door and when it opened there was a massive hulk of a man in scrubs coming toward us. He had to have been almost 7 feet, 300+ pounds, and zero body fat. His name was Sal and he was from Gambia.