It’s Called Addiction: Let’s Break the Stigma
What are the first three words that come to mind when you think of addiction?
You may be thinking: deadbeat, hopeless, and neglectful.
Let me tell you the three words that come to my mind: strength, reliance, and mother.
I’m the daughter of an alcoholic, and that’s not something I’m ashamed of. When people find out my mom is a recovering addict, they look at me like they’ve seen a ghost. It greatly pisses me off!
It’s time to stop acting like addiction is a taboo subject that we can’t talk about.
Addiction is a disease, and it should be treated like one
Would you make offensive or hurtful remarks about someone who had cancer? No, you wouldn’t. So why make asshole comments about addicts?
