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.
what happens now?
After a few days on the 5th floor I realized that I really had no concrete idea of what the details of John's overdose were! The past week had been a complete blur of just keeping him alive and it strangely hadn't occurred to me to ask anyone specifically about what and how much John had taken the night he arrived in this situation. I felt a little negligent because that seemed like such an obvious question, but I realized that everything was probably happening in it's proper time - it didn't really matter if I knew this information in the past week, it wouldn't have changed anything.