How a Handed Down, Tattered Pocket Book Saved Me From a Life of Addiction
5 min readMay 16, 2018
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s with a brother and sister who were 5 and 6 years older than me, I was surrounded by addiction, alcohol, temptation and experimentation.
When I was an early teen, my brother taught me and my friends how to “Huff” cooking spray from a plastic sandwich bag. It was the craziest experience I have ever endured…