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Podcast: Stranger Connections
Episode: David Poses - The Weight of Air; lies about addiction and the truth of recovery
Description: 'Compulsive use despite negative consequences' . . . . is the definition of addiction. Writer, speaker and activist David Poses isn't just telling us stuff, he is sharing his story of being addicted to heroin, even using at work. Hiding in plain sight . . .For 20 years he hid his struggle with depression and opioid addiction. How did he decide to (literally) come clean with street drug use and lies?Hear his opinion that AA is "a form of quackery that uses clever little 'isms'." As well as why he says some forms of recovery actually increase risk...