Needle Too: Junkies in Paradise

Needle Too: Junkies in Paradise

Recovery. As far as heroin addiction is concerned, Iâ€™m not sure there really is such a thing. And of course, I never intended to write a sequel, but after NEEDLE was published it wasnâ€™t long before I realized a number of readers, many of them addicts or family members and friends of addicts, were eager to learn how I recovered from a decade of opiate abuse. But again, regardless of what the â€œexpertsâ€ say, Iâ€™m not sure there is such a thingâ€”at least beyond what is often a precarious state of abstentionâ€”because â€œrecoveryâ€ implies something different, or at least something more complete and comprehensive than the reality of the situation should suggest. Indeed, it implies the â€œrecapturing of something that was lost, or the process by which one attempts to do so.â€ However, regardless of my own opinion, my own non-medical industry opinion, although I had cast a few lines out to gage reader interest, I never truly expected to write another NEEDLE-related account of my life. But ironically, ANY account of my life post-NEEDLE would inherently have to address my addiction because regardless of my continued state of abstentionâ€”Iâ€™m constantly reminded of it: an old friend, fallout from the past, a song, a famous overdose, a suddenly gentrified street and of course, my long-lost innocence has a haunting potential and so...Iâ€™m not sure there is such a thing.

In any event, spurred on by my activist efforts and my readersâ€™ interest, while in the midst of fostering a 15 year-old Himalayan cat that was rescued from an empty apartment where it was holed-up in a bird cage for three years and was now ready to rip my face off (perhaps as some sort of Karmic comeuppance for failing felines in the past), I decided to give it my best effort. After all, at the very least it might shed some insights for addicts and provide additional help for the homeless animals which, of course, is my new addictionâ€”though itâ€™s far more distressing and disturbing than the old one was. It is, in fact, the same part of my life which, prior to writing NEEDLE TOO, I briefly discussed and published at www.Needleuser.com back in 2012, and though Iâ€™m loath to regurgitate materialâ€”even if it was just a few pages shared with a very small percentage of readersâ€”it was too important to do without in the most recent context because it detailed an event that was pivotal in how I got to where I am. And though I still question the realistic possibility of a complete recovery, after almost twenty years I'm still somehow here to tell the tale. So here it isâ€¦and thanks for being a Needle user.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-07-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-07-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Needle Too: Junkies in Paradise

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