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.
i’m out of here
I was speechless that a patient in his condition could’ve done this without alerting anyone on the staff, and gotten to the point that he was going to leave on his own. He could barely stand up but was adamant that he was leaving, and if I wasn’t going to give him his wallet he was going anyway and would beg someone to give him bus fare. I asked him where he was planning to go and he said to his friend’s house, back in the neighborhood where the last OD had happened.