Hell
"The
hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of great
moral crises, maintain their neutrality." Dante Alighieri
Often,
we create a personal hell not by what we perpetrate but by what we
allow to happen. Much of the loneliness and isolation addicts and their
families experience results from remaining hidden and silent. The
pretense that everything is okay is not only untrue but deadly. Today I
choose not to be neutral. I speak about my alcoholism to wage war
against the disease that nearly killed me. I speak out about addiction
so society cannot say it did not know what was happening. I speak up for
treatment and recovery because I know they work in the vast majority of
cases. I am not neutral when it comes to addiction because I am
fighting for my life.
Give me the courage to speak up in a crowd. Let me live the message I was privileged to receive.
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