Effectively overcoming the magnetism of drugs and alcohol is a life-long endeavor.

Including the brutal internal war of learning to cope with the world in new ways, reaching our utmost potential requires us to also battle the heavy burden of stigma.

Here is a brief journey up the ladder and out of addiction.

Leaving the shitty life behind, all of it.

Absorbing the pains of the world, myself included.

How do we carry our hardship and if helping, what can we do or do not for others stuck in their own little hell? Hence forthcoming, my blog novella is not for the faint of heart, and sans the potty-mouth bowdlerization, just sayin’.

Charles is an educated and well-spoken man who once toured with the Grateful Dead, and now as a twice-incarcerated black man in an unjust American struggles with a piece of homelessness.