Go Ask Alice Part 2 with Carmen Maria Machado
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Is There a Life Without Drugs?
"I don't know whether to scream with glory or cover myself with ashes and sackcloth, whatever that means," she writes. "Anyone who says pot and acid are not addicting is a damned stupid, raving idiot, unenlightened fool." There's apparently just no way to escape from the cycle of swearing off drugs and relapsing,. And it feels as if the answer is not even don't do drugs even once, because she didn't do that on purpose.
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