[Harp-L] Gary Primich ("on overcoming addiction")

[dennis moriarty <dmoriarty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

        I don't usually get too personal on this board but in  
response to the post questioning those closest to Gary not helping  
him before the overdose.There are myriad complications built into  
"helping" or interfering with addictive/self destructive behaviors if  
it is indeed even obvious at all. Other than professional  
interventions which can be costly and require occupational and  
familial unity it tends to fall back on the individual to "help'  
themselves. As a person that arrested this behavior himself decades  
ago, has worked in the addiction field, and presently works in a  
hospice context I can tell you that addiction has a skull and  
crossbones that defeats the most earnest of friends and those  
afflicted. This is not meant to be a criticism of the poster as most  
of us are naive when it comes to the enormous vitality of drug/ 
alcohol addiction. d

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