When at the end of the road, we find that we can no longer function as human beings, with or without drugs. We all face the same dilemma. What is there left to do? There seems to be an alternative: either we can go on the best we can to the bitter ends -jail, institutions, or death- or we can find a new way to live. Very few addicts ever had this last choice. Those who are addicted today are very fortunate. For the first time in man's entire history there is a simple way proving itself in the lives of many addicts. It is available to you of us. This is a simple spiritual -not religious- program known as Narcotics Anonymous.
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Tuesday
There’s a middle-aged drug addict who mans the northeast corner of 86th Street and Lexington from 9 a.m. till he gets enough money for his arm’s next installment, shaking a Starbucks cup like a coined filled tambourine.
You know he had a good morning if by 11, he’s bent over from the waist as if tying an endless shoe. Today when I pass him, notice an ugly cut on his ankle peeking out…
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Where do I begin?
She turned the question over in her mind, caressing it, provoking it – fearing its weight, its depth – the callousness of the beginning, summoning her. Before long the anxiety set in, petrification – her breathing shallow, rapid, the choking kind.
She could almost see the shadow of his presence, taste the foreign object jammed down her throat and feel the torrent of salty…