They tell parents of addicts that until you have given your child up for dead, you have no way of helping them. That’s not exactly how they say it, but it’s pretty damn close. Addicts have three options, they tell us. Get clean, become institutionalized, or die. There are no other options and the longer we allow them to push off the inevitable, the more likely they are to end up dead, in jail, or in a mental institution. It’s untenable.

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