What Does Addiction Look Like???????????????

What color is addiction?

What economic class is addiction?

What sex is addiction?

Who is an addict?

Who can identify an addict?

Who can stop an addict?

If you look at this picture of this "happy" family you may never suspect that one of the people in the picture has struggled a long term addiction. You name it and they have shot it in their vain.

You may never know which one has struggled for over 20 years with a terrible drug addiction.

You may never know which ones in the picture have struggled with that person who has had a horrifying drug addiction. 

The choice is one out of three. 

Which one is the one? 

The woman in the middle? The man on the left? The man on the right?

They all look like fine upstanding citizens. They do not look like your common thief. 

They do not look like someone who would lie about anything to get their next fix. 

They do not look like some one who would stick a needle with a syringe full of cocaine in their arm, ankle, or wherever. 

Truth is, drug addiction comes in all colors.

Truth is, drug addiction comes in all sexes.

Truth is, drug addiction comes in all economic classes.

I was once told, "You cannot always tell who is an addict."

Who can stop an addict from being an addict?

That is a very good question.

Can you?

Can I?

I am finding that I cannot stop the addict in the picture. So, there is a clue. I am not the addict. That leaves two in the picture who may or may not be an addict.

Who can stop an addict?

I hate the word addict. How can a person be described as "he is an addict". What, how can that be? How can you say, "He is an addict." He is a man. He is (insert name).  So how can you refer to him as addict as if that is all there is to him?