RELEASE THE SHAME OF ADDICTION by Elaine Pawlowski.  Elaine writes for the Huffington Post and relates her own experience to an issue that tears apart families.  Not only are drug addiction and alcoholism denied a real treatment modality; the stigma of being a victim to addiction is numbing.  View http://www.weareshatterproof.org/ for the work of one organization seeking to confront the negativity in dealing with these real problems.  links by Elaine

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