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

[Special20 <special20harp@xxxxxxxxx>]

My name is Spec20, and I am an addict/alcoholic.  I have been an addict
almost all of my adult life, but I have lived a clean and sober life for the
last several years.  I am still an addict.  It never ends.

To Gary Primich I say: Rest easy, brother.  Your battle is done.  I know how
your illness crept into every crevice of your life, stealing your happiness,
your friends and family, your dignity, and finally your life.  Homelessness,
disease, and death are never far away for an addict.  We can sometimes see
it gaining on us if we glance over our shoulders.

Every morning I get up and decide what its going to be that day.  Will I
drink or use?  Every day for over a thousand days I have decided to stay
sober, but I think I know how Gary Primich or any addict looking into the
abyss felt on his last day of sobriety.  Addiction is a wretched curse.

Rest easy, brother.  Your battle is done but your music lives on.

-Spec20









On 9/28/07, dennis moriarty <dmoriarty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>         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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