Who Is an Addict?

Most of us do not have to think twice about this question.

We know! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs

in one form or another—the getting and using and finding

ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used

to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose

life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a

continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always

the same: jails, institutions, and death.