“To someone who isn’t an addict, this story may make addicts seem like dumb people who need an extra energy boost and then fall into addiction”
It was very brave of Family First to publish a woman’s account of her struggle to overcome addiction. As a frum female addict who’s one year sober, it’s nice to see the frum world recognizing this struggle.
One part bothered me a lot, though. Obviously, every addict has his or her own story and journey; just because my friends and I are addicts doesn’t mean we’d necessarily relate to all of it. Of course.
But to someone who isn’t an addict, this story may make addicts seem like dumb people who need an extra energy boost and then fall into addiction. Nobody ever picks up a pill just because. And I, as a logical person (never mind an addict), couldn’t understand why the protagonist started using. Yes, she was abused, but the correlation between that and the addiction is what I believe was missing.
Like Rabbi Shais Taub says in his book, G-d of Our Understanding: “An addict’s addiction is not his problem, it’s his solution. For if it were his problem, he’d stop once it got too hard.”
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