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Heroin Addiction: One Family’s Misadventure

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Cassandra Stedham — 1 Comment ↓

by Cassandra Stedham –USA– Addiction. What thoughts and images does this word evoke? Sunken eyes, pallid complexion, grinding teeth, fingernails gnawed down to the quick? The bland uniformity of a hospital waiting room? Spoons, flames, lines, tinfoil, smoke, needles. Junkies…

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