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In the end there is jail, institution or death. That’s how one drug rehabilitation counselor describes the alternatives to living a drug-free life. But for one man, drug abuse is a disease that he has fought and overcome in a brilliant way. He has many stories in a journey from the before and afterworld of addiction. Kate Archer compiled this two-part series on the emotional and physical roller coaster of drug addiction.
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* This feature aired on KEDM Public Radio (Monroe, La.) in May 2004. Suggested Intro: In the end there is jail, institution or death. That’s how one drug rehabilitation counselor describes the alternatives to living a drug-free life. But for one man, drug abuse is a disease that he has fought and overcome in a brilliant way. He has many stories in a journey from the before and afterworld of addiction. Kate Archer compiled this two-part series on the emotional and physical roller coaster of drug addiction.
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* This feature aired on KEDM Public Radio (Monroe, La.) in May 2004.
Transcript
Soundbite: “People have all sorts of problems in life. Some they ask for and some they don’t. But, how we deal with them I really think that defines who we are.”
VO: On April 17, 1997, Nathan Scott of Spearsville, Louisiana, took control of a problem that nearly cost him his life: Drug addiction. He has been sober for more than seven years now, and counting. But his story doesn’t end at kicking an addiction that most people can’t do. The real story of Nathan Scott, as he tells it, is an emergence of a dramatically different life. This is one man’s story of living two lives: the first, an aimless drug addict, the second, an emerging biophysics scholar.
Soundbite: “I spent a lot of years aimless with no direction whatsoever. If you had told me seven or eight years ago that I would be going to an Ivy League graduate school in the summer of 2004, I would have thought you were crazy.”...
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Jen Curry
Posted on July 22, 2005 at 06:44 PM | Permalink
Review of A physicist battles drug addiction
great topic, I think the face of addiction needs to be more honest, that most are functional. Yearned for more than the success story though... less "sugared up" and delving into what triggered the addiction to begin with? How did this guy actually live in the so-called underbelly, yet progress. Why is the only nat sound that of a grandfather clock? This piece (re-worked) could be paired with other features on similar themes...